Word: davidson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soporific rigmaroles, her echolaliac incantations, her half-witted-sounding catalogs of numbers; most of us read her less & less. Yet, remembering especially her early work, we are still aware of her presence in the background of contemporary literature-and we picture her as the great pyramidal Buddha of Jo Davidson's statue of her, eternally and placidly ruminating the gradual developments of the processes of being, regis- tering the vibrations of a psychological country like some august human seismograph whose charts we haven't the training to read." Such esoteric experiments as Have They Attacked Mary He Giggled...
...Woman. If posterity understands present-day art. it is likely that the future will have a pretty good idea what Gertrude Stein looked like. Picasso has painted her, Picabia has drawn her. Jo Davidson has done a joss-like statue of her. Never a beauty, she is now massive, middleaged, 59, would strongly resemble a fat Jewish hausfrau were it not for her close-cropped head. (When her old friend Mme de Clermont-Tonnerre had her hair bobbed, Gertrude Stein decided to cut her hair short too. Alice Toklas did it for her.) Very democratic, proud of being a plain...
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Died. Jenny Davidson Hibben, 70, wife of the late John Grier Hibben, retired president of Princeton; of fractures of the skull and pelvis sustained in the automobile collision in which her husband was killed; in Manhattan, Ill since the accident occurred May 16, she developed pneumonia, was never told of her husband's death. Died. Horace H. Rackham, 74, Detroit attorney and charitarian; in Ann Arbor, Mich. Disregarding the advice of bankers, he mortgaged his real estate, borrowed $5,000, took 50 shares in the Ford Motor Co. in 1903. In 1919, Henry and Edsel Ford bought...
...thought Dr. Hibben must have suffered a stroke or fainted at the wheel before the crash. Born in Peoria. Ill., son of a minister, he was graduated with honors by Princeton in 1882, Princeton Theological Seminary in 1886 (after a year at Berlin University). In 1887 he married Jenny Davidson of Elizabeth, N. J. For four years he had a church in Chambersburg, Pa., then joined the Princeton faculty to teach logic, in 1897 becoming Stuart Professor of logic. His steady, friendly, patient disposition made him the best compromise for Princeton's presidency when the university was split into...