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Only one statesman is able to take the microphone in France and talk successfully to the entire nation as "My dear fellow citizens and friends." The people call him affectionately Gastounet ("Little Gaston"). They sympathized when he was a lonely bachelor and President of France. They appreciated his delicacy in waiting until his next to last week in office before marrying a lady of wealth with a chateau in southern France. When President Gaston Doumergue retired his popularity remained such as utterly to eclipse his two successors. There was no one else whom sad-eyed, colorless President Albert Lebrun could...
That sent the statesmen scampering to stop Premier Gaston Doumergue before he could leave Paris for his vacation. "M. le President!" they panted at Gastounet, "your Cabinet is threatened. You must...
...steatopygous torso of a woman labeled COLOSSAL (see cut). Dwarfed visitors marveled at its 53-in. bust measurement, its triumphant pose, its defiant backflung elbows, the rhythmic convolutions of its tinted plaster surfaces. Gift of Edward M. M. Warburg, the torso was one more of the vasty works of Gaston Lachaise, whom many a critic rates among the top-notchers...
Like Diego Rivera, Gaston Lachaise somewhat resembles the figures he produces. Even more akin to them is full-bosomed Mme Lachaise who, although she has seldom posed for her husband, has been the inspiration for most of his amply proportioned torsos. Son of a Paris cabinet maker, Gaston Lachaise was an indifferent student at the Beaux Arts. When the woman who was to be his wife left for her native U. S., he followed her, earning passage money by carving figurines for Glassmaker René Lalique. He worked ten years in the U. S. before he thought he had enough money...
...Gaston Lachaise summers in a Georgetown, Me. farmhouse where he raises ducks. In Manhattan he lives in a studio with no telephone in Washington Mews. Ascetic, hardworking, he goes to an occasional cinema or burlesque, rarely to parties. Although he works at fever pitch he tries to calm himself by muttering "Now I am working very coldly, very accurately." When this fails, he takes a subway ride...