Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sandwiched between "Fine Chippendale'' and "French Books" in the London Times last week was an ad that was enough to make an old sculptor turn in his chisel. The ad: "Epstein's masterpieces. Adam, Jacob and the Angel, Consummatum Est, For Sale. Offers Wanted." The statues were three of Jacob Epstein's most famous works: a hulking, dumbly defiant alabaster giant that makes the first man look scarcely human; a muscle-bound Jacob hugging a brutish-looking angel; and a recumbent, mummy like figure of Christ, with crude but powerfully eloquent hands upturned in protest...
Divorced. William Vincent Astor, 61, Manhattan real-estate king who inherited $65 million from his father, John Jacob Astor; by his second wife, Mary Cushing Astor, 47, eldest of the late brain surgeon Harvey Cushing's three beautiful, millions-marrying daughters (her sisters' husbands: CBS Board Chairman William Paley, Manhattan Financier John Hay Whitney) ; on grounds of mental cruelty, after nearly 13 years of marriage, no children; in Pocatello, Idaho...
...living legend stepped on to the stage of the steamy barn theater at Jacob's Pillow in Massachusetts' Berkshires one day last week. She was Ruth St. Denis, world-famed dancer for more than half a century and, with Isadora Duncan, founder of modern dance. By the laws of time (she admits to 73), old Dancer St. Denis should have creaked. Actually, though nobody in the audience pretended that she looked like the girl in the White Rock ads any more, many forgot her age as they watched the practiced magic of her performance...
...Jacob's Pillow performance was one of Miss Ruth's occasional public appearances. Most of the year she is busy in Hollywood with the Ruth St. Denis School and the "Church of the Divine Dance," where she has about 50 disciples of all ages. She also has 50 acres south of Riverside, Calif., where she would like to start a colony. "If I had an endowment-which I ain't got-" she adds with the breeziness of an old trouper. "I would take six boys and six girls and keep them under monastic discipline in a retreat...
Died. Edwin Goodman, 76, chairman and co-founder of Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman (women's specialty shop), where he personally attended to the wants of the world's rich and royal (e.g., Madame Chiang Kaishek, the Duchess of Windsor, Mrs. John Jacob Astor); in Manhattan...