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...judge didn't know it, but the infant whose name was in question, yowling upstairs, was to be a famous sculptor. The clenched red hands of young Daniel Chester French would one day mold Concord's familiar Minute Man, John Harvard at Cambridge, and the seated Lincoln for Washington's Lincoln Memorial. He would live 81 fortunate years, and his wife and daughter would each write a book about him. Daniel's daughter, Margaret French Cresson, herself a sculptor, has written the better book, Journey into Fame (Harvard University Press; $4.50), published this week...
Next day Judge French brought home a lump of clay for Daniel to practice on, and for seven years Daniel practiced diligently. When the family moved to Concord, dashing May Alcott (Louisa's sister), who had studied sculpture in Paris, gave him a few pointers, and Neighbor Ralph Waldo Emerson too was moved to smile on Daniel's work. That was enough. Writes Margaret: "With that fine conviction in their own capacity to produce the best . . . Concord commissioned its youthful representative of the plastic art to model a statue of a Minute...
Henry H. Hilton, III, Box 84, Bedford Road, Lincoln, Mass., a graduate of Middlesex School, Concord, Mass...
With a contract from the Globe in his pocket, Robert L. Moore '49, of Winthrop House and Concord sets off for the United Kingdom this summer to write a series of articles on the topic of "An American Soldier Revisits England Three Years Later...
...Gropius must always be the ideal of an organically-planned community, free from slums, smoke, and congestion and their atendant social ills. Near his residence in Lincoln (a severe-lined affair of his own design atop a windy hill) he has pointedly noted in the Village Common model of Concord and Lexington a bygone "human scale small enough for each citizen . . . a scale which we have lost...