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Died. Charles Keck, 75, onetime assistant to Sculptor Augustus St. Gaudens, and heir to his heroic style; of a heart ailment; in Carmel, N.Y. Among his best-known statues: Father Duffy, a Times Square fixture; Lewis & Clark, in Charlottesville, Va.; Huey Long, in Baton Rouge, La.; Andrew Jackson, in Kansas City, commissioned by Jackson County's Presiding Judge Harry S. Truman...
...dedicate a five-foot, bronze equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson which he had presented to Jackson County. The statue-a model of a larger one which Truman had commissioned for the Kansas City courthouse when he was a county judge-had been given to him by Sculptor Charles Keck in 1934. Harry Truman had been unable to use it or give it away, and it had languished in Keek's studio for 15 years. But as a gift from a President it had become eminently acceptable and last week a crowd of 1,500 gathered to crane...
...Faille and Paul Gachet thought it was. To settle the matter, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, which had on display the most comprehensive Van Gogh exhibition ever seen in the U.S., picked a jury of American experts: Museum Men Alfred Barr Jr., James Plaut, George Stout and Sheldon Keck...
Chicago Architect George Fred Keck, who thinks each generation should have a chance to decide whether it wants to live in caves or in skyscrapers, reached back 96 years for support from The House of the Seven Gables. "We shall live to see the day," wrote Hawthorne, "when no man shall build his house for posterity. Why should he? He might just as reasonably order a durable suit of clothes-leather, or guttapercha, or whatever else lasts longest-so that his great-grandchildren should have the benefit of them, and cut precisely the same figure in the world that...
...Atlantic in 40 minutes.) Through a spy system, Allied officers got reports during the war by German scientific work, but there were still surprises. The scientists talked freely and most thought that Hitler had lost the war to diverting too much effort to "screwball'' weapons. Lieut. Colonel Keck and his staff, all hardheaded engineers, considered the Germans' experiments, even the sun gun, no laughing matter. Said Keck soberly: "We were impressed with their practical engineering minds and their distaste for the fantastic...