Word: davidson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a tour of Israel, where his sitters included President Chaim Weizman, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, a few "men in the street," and members of the cabinet, Sculptor Jo Davidson arrived in Paris with a group of plaster busts to be cast in bronze. It was the beginning of a Davidson project to make a bronze history of the new country...
...many good books in the field of history, two were standouts: British Historian Arthur Bryant's The Age of Elegance, a brilliant, lively account of England in the second decade of the igth Century, and Marshall Davidson's handsome two-volume Life in America, a top-notch social history of the U.S. that was worth...
...overall records of the three colleges newly-scheduled to play Harvard next fall will be of interest to Crimson football fans. Davidson had the poorest of the three seasons with a one-and-seven record against some fairly good southern opposition. Washington University of St. Louis won five and lost four against nine of the lesser powers of the mid-west. Colgate played a fairly strong eastern schedule, winning four and losing five...
...DAVIDSON (won 1, lost...
Between Sittings, Jo Davidson's autobiography, is just like his sculpture. Short on profundity, it glows with gusto and innocence. Those who come to it for dazzling impressions of people and places will find nothing but what they already know, e.g., that Israel is "the birthplace of our civilization," that Gandhi looked like "a holy man," that Will Rogers specialized in "nuggets of wisdom." Luckily, the bulk of Between Sittings is not about what Jo thought and did between sittings, at all. It is about the hell of a life he led cooping pawky big shots into a corner...