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Dick Harlow, who retired as Harvard coach in 1947 because of ill health, is returning to the coaching staff of Western Maryland, where he coached before he came to Harvard. Lowell S. Ensor, President of the southern college, announced Harlow's appointment Saturday...
Carroll Shilling, winner of the 1912 Kentucky Derby, and considered by many the most inspired horseman who ever held a pair of reins, has been in & out of sanitariums for alcoholism in recent years. Buddy Ensor, after losing many a bout with the bottle, died last winter in New York City. Laverne Fator, perhaps the iciest jockey who ever rode a horse, killed himself a few years ago. Tod Sloan, who made and squandered over a million dollars, ended up wheedling dimes from street crowds, billed as "the strangest dwarf in the world...
...posters of his time, was the work of stunted, aristocratic Henri-Marie-Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec Monfa, who put his hand to almost every variety of graphic art. But also shown were works by Lautrec's finest contemporaries: Jean Louis Forain, Alexandre Théophile Steinlen, James Ensor, Jules Chéret, Albert Guillaume, F. A. Cazals (one poster showed Poet Paul Verlaine at an exhibition...
When James Ensor was 19 he painted portraits from a palette like that of America's Albert Pinkham Ryder (then 32), two years later bourgeois interiors in the expressionistic manner of Jean Edouard Vuillard (then 14). At 29 Ensor painted a horse careening across a sky a la Marc Chagall (then 2). Fifty-four years ago Ensor scandalized even the most audacious art lovers with his Entry of Christ into Brussels. This canvas showed a vast crowd of leering men & women, one a skeleton, others with masks, around a hardly noticeable Christ, abject upon a mule...
Until recently, James Ensor kept open his father's little Ostend souvenir shop, did an average business of 35 francs a day. Before the war the painter was heavily represented in the museums of Antwerp, Brussels, Dresden and Vienna, and not at all in the museums of England, where he held his first British exhibition...