Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four she drew bugs and tigers pulling streetcars, later painted unicorns, circuses, zebras playing banjos. Since she was never exposed to lessons in anatomy, drawing or perspective, her people and animals are boneless but nonetheless seem natural. Her father's explanation: "She draws a picture of an animal like you write your name-through long, uninhibited practice...
Like most children, little Dahlov Zorach scribbled pictures when she was three years old. Unlike most children, she was a sculptor's daughter. Fond Father William Zorach began saving all her work he could lay his hands on, kept on saving it. Result: A unique exhibition last week (at the Young People's Gallery in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art) which showed 19 years of an artist's growth...
...Said Father Charles Edward Coughlin, broadcasting from Detroit's Shrine of the Little Flower day after repeal of the U. S. arms embargo became law: "It is my opinion that now we are virtually at war with Germany...
...elephant, William Whiteley, Ltd. (bought in Britain's 1927 boom), but kept his managerial job in the 19 Selfridge Provincial Stores throughout England and the London suburbs. A U. S. citizen, Gordon Jr. now has an unpaid job in the Ministry of Information's Home Publicity Department. Father Selfridge, now definitely in retirement, plans after visiting Chicago to return to his London office (whose windows are covered with autographs etched in with a diamond-pointed pencil) and work on a life of Cosimo de' Medici...
...Arthur Curtiss James was 40 and he had just received $25,000,000 by his father's will. Instead of diversifying his investment as he was advised, he began to concentrate in railroad securities. By 1926 he had a beard like a buffalo, owned the world's largest square-rigged yacht (the 675-ton Aloha), was Board Chairman of the big Western Pacific, controlled 40,000 miles of railroad trackage-a full seventh of the U. S. total-most of it in the Northwest, stamping ground of the late great Railroad Builder James Jerome Hill, whom...