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...Carl is a stooped old man with long white hair, who has lived and taught at Michigan's Cranbrook Academy of Art since 1931. Some of his best-known U.S. works: the Fountain of Diana, Chicago; the "Meeting of the Waters" fountain in St. Louis; the 37-ft. Peace Memorial, St. Paul; a granite monument to early Swedish settlers of Wilmington...
...window dressing, finally married a girl "as blonde and as genuine as a sand dune," and discovered to his surprise that he could make a living and even support a family (two children) by teaching art. Now he heads the Department of Painting at Michigan's progressive Cranbrook Academy. It was a teacher who gave Sepeshy his first incentive to become an artist. "If I hadn't wanted to 'show' that drawing teacher who had flunked...
...Eliel Saarinen, Finnish founder of the Cranbrook (Mich.) Academy of Art. His city planning, said Moses, leads "straight into communal land ownership...
...Detroit's Cranbrook Institute of Science opened an exhibit designed to teach racial tolerance to the city which has had the worst U.S. race riots in years. Many points made by the Institute's displays were drawn from The Races of Mankind...
Delighted to read of the "gremlins" in this week's issue. They must be distant cousins of the "saskwatchs" who come up from the Penticton beam every night and ride along over the Cascade mountain range on our Trip 4. They jump off over Cranbrook and do an instrument letdown into the Kootenay valley to visit friends there, returning several hours later on Trip...