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Saint-Gaudens had gone to work at twelve as an apprentice cameo-cutter, and early acquired the habit of taking infinite pains with details. He spent 14 years on the Shaw Memorial (see cut) and he modeled 40 Negro heads for it before deciding on the 16 he finally used. Such painstaking appealed to Henry Adams' New England genius, and Saint-Gaudens' talent for mirroring vast ideas in bronze made him just the man, Adams thought, to create a memorial for Mrs. Adams' tomb...
...Lipsett, Inc. arranged for nine other tugs and a Coast Guard cutter for the trip to the graveyard, Newark, spurred by all the publicity it was getting, appealed to retired Admiral Halsey, a New Jersey native, for advice. "Bull" Halsey, a carrier man, who did not have much use for battleships anyhow, replied: "I don't known a damn thing about patrolling channels." The London News Chronicle joined the fun. It cabled to find out if a revolution was impending. Replied Newark: "Let there be no dancing in the streets of London. This is no civil...
...acclaimed hero of the Bermuda Sky Queen crash was Pilot Charles Martin. When his big Boeing flying boat ran low on gas over the stormy North Atlantic last month (TIME, Oct. 27), he had brought her neatly down off the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Bibb and saved the lives of 69 passengers and crewmen. But as Civil Aeronautics Board hearings began last week, Pilot Martin (and crew) looked a lot less heroic...
...searchlights on the plunging plane and wait for the worst. There were still 24 men and one woman aboard the plane. But the flying boat's hull stayed intact. In the morning, with the wind abating, the last of the passengers and crew were safely taken off. The cutter riddled the Sky Queen with gunfire, stood by while she burned and sank, then turned home...
...heads, and use them. Last week Art Critic Arthur Power, after looking at Jack Yeats's latest show, spoke up: "His figures look at their worst as though eaten by some hideous disease, or at their best as if they had had an unfortunate encounter with a bacon cutter. . . . His success is tempting young painters to copy his careless methods and so robbing them of all integrity...