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...first success was a portrait of a Miss Alice Maude Greenwood which was accepted for the Royal Academy of 1899. The picture was sold and two years later Frank Salisbury married Miss Greenwood. The portrait of the future Mrs. Salisbury won him a commission to do a portrait of Sir Joseph Gilbert which in turn brought him a commission from Sir Charles Lawes-Writtewronge. After that Frank Salisbury was made. Since then he has propped up his easel before so many of the world's potentates, that it is difficult to understand why he has never been knighted...
...Neumann was Mrs. Winifred Travis, chairman of the Parents' Association of Public School 217. X, she declared, had been at the Ethical Culture School only three months, was really a product of P. S. 217. At that point, X's parents, Mr. & Mrs. George H. Greenwood, stepped forward to state that they were "not interested in giving credit to any institution." X was Arthur ("Bunny") Greenwood, aged 7 years, 7 months. His intelligence quotient had been arrived at privately by an officer of the Board of Education's Child Guidance Bureau. Although based on the standard Stanford...
Whether or not Bunny Greenwood was the smartest boy in the world, there was no doubt that he was a topnotch prodigy. He did not begin to talk until he was 20 months old but when he did, according to his mentors, he rattled off complete, grammatical sentences. By his second birthday, with help from his letter blocks, none from his parents, he had taught himself to read. Bunny's most startling exploit occurred shortly after that when he sat down at a piano, worked out a system of musical notation, using a different number for each note. Today...
...Bunny is a sweet, normal child and we are desperately anxious to keep him that way," said his mother last week. Like her husband, who teaches mathematics in a Brooklyn high school, Mrs. Greenwood is Jewish, well-educated. No prodigy is Bunny's brother David...
...Life in Greenwood, Fla. was a little less dull one day last week when all the white folks in the neighborhood were invited out to George Cannidy's place for a lynching. Someone had dragged Farmer Cannidy's young daughter Lola out across his cotton patch, raped her near a pigsty, bashed in her head and left her under some pine boughs for dead. A Negro buck named Claude Neal had been arrested for the crime, lodged for safe keeping in a jail across the Alabama line at Brewton. One hundred Floridians had driven over to Brewton...