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...Noteworthy noisemakers in the fine arts were a couple of oldsters: in London, Sculptor Jacob Epstein, 66; in Paris, Pianist Alfred Cortot...
...lobby of the Manchester Guardian's smoke-grimed Victorian building, a bust by Jacob Epstein glares down on the editorial floor, where a few stubborn oldsters still scribble in longhand amid the clacking typewriters of fresh-faced Oxonians. It is the image of Charles Prestwich Scott, the Guardian's late, greatest editor, who built a provincial Whig organ into English liberalism's bravest voice...
...bosses and Mrs. Roosevelt got together in a traditionally smoke-heavy private dining room of Albany's Hotel DeWitt Clinton the night before the convention. To satisfy the A.L.P. and P.A.C. they picked slender, sharp-faced Henry Epstein, onetime State Solicitor General and a member of P.A.C.'s national executive committee, for a 14-year State Court of Appeals judgeship. To add a bit of luster to the slate, they drafted Albany's 36-year-old Mayor Erastus Corning II, an ex-G.I. and Yaleman, for Lieutenant Governor...
...Epstein says modeling is "the creating of something out of nothing. An actual building up and getting to grips with the material." Famed Fellow-Sculptor Jose de Creeft, a 60-year-old Spaniard who has lived in the U.S. since 1928, says scornfully that modelers work with "just...
...Creeft's latest liberations opened in a Manhattan gallery. It proved that he does find his figures in stones, and keeps them there. Anyone could tell that his Aux Aguets (In Ambush) had been carved from a round boulder. His figures had none of the hovering aliveness of Epstein's Lucifer, nor did they seem to think and gesture as some 15th-Century German cathedral carvings do. They just lay around-like beautiful rocks...