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Though he does not yet know it, Artist William Edmondson's tombstones are all tattle directe. Cut directly in the stone without preliminary modeling, they are all small, because he has not yet been able to buy a sizable block. Their charm lies in the simple-hearted directness with which Sculptor Edmondson has chiseled out woolly-headed angels, rams, dumpy little preachers, lawyers and ladies with bustles...
Deeply religious, Sculptor Edmondson is far from the bottom of Nashville's Negro society. A hard-working hospital orderly for many years, he owns his own home and a thriving vegetable patch, turned tombstone carver about five years ago because of a vision. To friends last week he explained his conversion: "Dis here stone n' all those out there in de yard-come from God. It's de word in Jesus speakin' his mind in my mind. I mus' be one of his 'ciples. Dese here is mirkels I can do. Cain...
...returned to New York to bury his wife, met a charming girl who called herself, somewhat interchangeably, Beula Benton Edmondson (her father was a Scotsman descended from a Norman knight who crossed the Channel with William the Conqueror), or Keetaw Kelantucky Sequoan (her mother was a Cherokee descended from Chief Sequoyah who invented the Cherokee alphabet). After a month's courtship he married her. Despite elaborate precautions to keep the time and place of the wedding secret, enthusiastic Tammany crowds jammed the streets for blocks. Dozens of New York's photographers turned out. To avoid their curiosity, Boss...
...Bart J. Bok, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Harvard; Miss Edith Jones, of Waldron, Ind., second year graduate student in astronomy at Radcliffe; Miss Barbara Cherry, of West Roxbury, first year graduate student in astronomy at Radcliffe; Dantel Norman, of Malden, graduate student in astronomy at Harvard; and Frank K. Edmondson, of Cambridge, graduate student in astronomy at Harvard...
...fourth of a series of "Open Nights," under the auspices of the Bond Astronomical Club, will be held at 7:30 o'clock tonight at the College Observatory. Mr. F. K. Edmondson will speak on "The Stars in Our Universe...