Word: fountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deportment on his monthly report card would get one 15-cent ice cream soda on the house. Last week Yorkship's teachers passed out the fateful report cards. Presently, in breathless twos and threes, the first arrivals raced up to Charles Balaban's soda fountain, exhibited their A's. Mr. Balaban amiably began to set them up. Soon they came by tens, then twenties. Mr. Balaban ran out of straws, glasses, soda, ice cream. By nightfall no good little boys and girls had claimed their prizes. Druggist Balaban prudently withdrew his offer. Meanwhile School Superintendent Leon Nelson...
...famed Orpheus fountain in Stockholm was finished in 1936 by Carl Emil Andersson Milles, Sweden's greatest living sculptor. In 1931, in his third year as resident sculptor at Detroit's suburban Cranbrook Academy, Sculptor Milles met Alderman Aloe's widow in St. Louis and learned her desire for a group of fountains in Aloe Plaza. In 1936 Mrs. Aloe put up $12,500, the city of St. Louis put up $47,500, and Sculptor Milles was commissioned to do for St. Louis what he had done for Stockholm...
...grey-haired Carl Milles worked serenely in his three Cranbrook studios, pictures of his first clay models for the Wedding of the Mississippi and the Missouri were published in LIFE. Francis D. Healy, elderly chairman of St. Louis's Municipal Art Commission, saw them and snorted that the fountain would be better named "Wedding in a Nudist Colony" (TIME, Aug. 9). For Sculptor Milles' wave-naked Tritons, Commissioner Hubert Hoeflinger, onetime tailor, suggested trousers. Finally the Star-Times took a poll of public opinion, found plenty of people who agreed with the two indignant commissioners about "art" which...
...this soft-spoken Carl Milles responded: "I am certain that they will love the finished fountain." Somewhat forgotten amid the publicity was the fact that Milles possesses not only the most invigorating fancy now at work in sculpture but an unsurpassed gift for making a powerful, rhythmic composition of many sculptured figures. In his Wedding the strong male figure of the Mississippi and the aloof female Missouri, mounted on swooping fishes, will approach each other in the centre of Aloe Plaza. Behind each lollops a flowing train of antic naiads and tough river gods. To Detroit last week...
Sixty-three-year-old Henry Fountain Ashurst, U. S. Senator from Arizona, was recuperating in a Washington hospital from a case of shingles. Complained disgruntled Senator Ashurst: "It had ever been my hope, if incapacitated, to suffer from some affliction that might be described by high-sounding sesquipedalian words...