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Just when youthful Editor George Teeple Eggleston was toying with the idea of using colored photographs on Life's cover, into his office walked Abner Joseph Epstein (Dartmouth 1931), nephew of famed Sculptor Jacob Epstein. He had made some paper masks of U. S. politicians, wondered if Life could use them. With him Editor Eggleston concocted the "Little Jack Homer" subject for the first of a series...
Critics found Artist Stallknecht's mural raw, bold, naive, much like the works she exhibited in Manhattan's Ferargil galleries last May. Critics also recalled that modernized divinities are nothing new; Jacob Epstein's Christ was much discussed for his negroid appearance. Nor are real faces in religious pictures rare; many an Italian and Flemish noble and magnifico got himself and his offspring into a "Holy Family...
...John Jacob Raskob sold his million-dollar estate "Archmere" on the Dela ware River at Claymont, Del. to the Premonstratensian Fathers of St. Norbert College, Depere, Wis. A show place with a palatial manor house in which are five nurseries, the property will be made into a boys' preparatory school, named Archmere Academy. For a year the Raskobs have resided at their Centreville, Md. place. There the family occupies "Heart felt Hall." On the outside, beneath the window of each of the twelve children's rooms, is a medallion bearing the likeness of the occupant. The guest house...
Birthdays. Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn (75), Mrs. Edith Kermit Roosevelt (71), Jacob Ruppert (65), Sir Harry MacLennan Lauder (62), Virginia's Governor John Garland Pollard (61), Haakon VII of Norway (60), Herbert Clark Hoover (58), Ethel Barrymore (53), the Duchess of York...
Music Merger. A sharp, small Manhattan lawyer named Jacob Scholer was given a difficult task in 1929 by Irving Trust Co. He was to handle the run-down affairs of American Piano Co., petitioned into receivership. So well did he do it that within a year the creditors were paid and plans for a reorganization perfected. A new company, American Piano Corp.. bought the assets of the old company, entered the manufacture of such famed instruments as the Knabe (Metropolitan Opera's favorite). Chickering (family use). Mason & Hamlin (artists) and the Ampico Player Piano...