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Like any typical Paris sculpture show of the 19303, Director Valentin's U. S. exhibition was long on abstractions and elephantoid nudes, short on frock-coat portraits and winsome nymphs (exceptions: Simon Moselsio's sloe-eyed Nude, John B. Flannagan's dreamy bronze Mother and Child-see cuts). None of the pieces showed any recognizable relation to the U. S. scene. Most abstract of all were: 1) a nut-&-bolt portrait by David Smith, virtuoso in scrap iron (TIME, Nov. 18); 2) a jittery, swaying mobile made out of fence wire and iron by U. S. Mobilist...
Biggest thing in the sculpture room was the late Gaston Lachaise's tiptoeing, steatopygous, nude, Standing Woman; one of the smallest was still the reductio ad absurdum of John B. Flannagan's solid, amusingly diminutive Elephant...
Three sculptors included in the Cleveland show, Zorach, Heinz Warneke and John Flannagan, got a more varied display of their work in Manhattan's Passedoit Gallery, sharing honors with Spaniard Jose de Creeft, whose Semitic Head was the most impressive single piece on display. Done in beaten lead, this dark maiden was also highest priced ($4,000) in the exhibit...
...pocket and strong-arm man," told an Assembly audience that "the canteen is directed by the Holy Spirit. We have no cashier. You simply go in and take what you want and pay for it and be God-guided all the time you are there." Said Camp Cook Francis Flannagan: "We have our quiet times in the morning so that through guidance we may make our menus...
...which Jeby was defending his world's middleweight championship; in Newark. ¶Inlander, owned by socialite Mrs. Dodge Sloane of Manhattan: the Arlington Classic, in which he muddily spattered up from fourth place in the stretch, to finish first and pay $21.52, in Chicago. ¶Ralph Flannagan, 15, of Miami: the National A. A. U. outdoor mile swimming race held in the north lagoon of the Century of Progress, Chicago, in 21:12½, thus breaking the U. S. record (21:27) held by Cinematic Buster Crabbe. At the same meet, Leonard Spence of the New York Athletic Club...