Word: davidson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...puts strong feelings into his sculpture (TIME, Aug. 30, 1948), and has plenty left over when he has laid aside his mallet. Last week Mestrovic received an urgent invitation to return to Yugoslavia, where he was born and made his fame. The invitation came through Fellow Sculptor Jo Davidson, who had recently completed a bust of Marshal Tito, and it was from the Dictator himself. "Tell Mestrovic," Tito had said, "not to be a fool. Tell him to come back." The expatriate sculptor's blunt reply: "Too many of my friends are in jail over there...
Sculptor Jo Davidson, who has modeled heads of Franklin Roosevelt, Mohandas Gandhi, Albert Einstein and Frank Sinatra, wound up a commission in Belgrade, put the finishing touches on a bust of Marshal Tito...
Shepard came home in 1929 and started coaching again, teaching fast-break ball to southern teams until he wound up at Davidson College in North Carolina. It was here that the long frantic arm of H.A.A. Director William J. Bingham '16 fell on his shoulder. "I was proud to get a chance to coach at Harvard," says Shepard. "You may not realize it now but back when I was playing, Harvard had an athletic reputation, too I haven't forgotten that...
...developed a new twist for TV, which Sports Director Bill Stern calls "regional" telecasting. It is also tailored to local loyalties: last week NBC telecast Army-Davidson from New York to Richmond, while New England got the Yale-Connecticut game...
...semi-basement room at No. 3 Via Fratelli Bandieri, a narrow, cobblestoned street swarming with seminaked children. She had first told her story to Correspondent William Rospigliosi of our bureau last spring. When I arrived, she had just received two letters from TIME readers. One, from Mrs. Betty Jane Davidson, of Bluefield, West Virginia, said that a food package was on its way and asked for shoe and clothing sizes for everybody in the family. The other, from Bernice Sherman, of Bolton Landing, N.Y., also asked for clothing measurements...