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...This is only Rumor No. 687," pooh-poohed Sportswriter Harry Keck of Pittsburgh's Sun Telegraph last week. But the rumor he was talking about proved well founded. Dr. John Bain ("Jock") Sutherland, famed Pitt football coach, who was dumped into the open market a year ago after a row with Pitt educators, was thereafter rumored engaged almost as often as Brenda Frazier, had actually signed a contract: to coach the Brooklyn Dodgers, National League professional-football club...
...Charles Keck (U. S. S. Maine Memorial) was fashioning an 18-ft. Celtic cross to back the figure of the late Father Francis P. Duffy, famed Wartime chaplain of the 69th New York Regiment. This $15,000 job, to adorn Manhattan's Times Square, was given direct to Sculptor Keck by the Father Duffy Memorial Committee and approved by the New York Municipal Art Commission...
...Possibly because things looked so bright for the tombstone trade, last week's convention talked little about business, a lot about art. Dealers and salesmen were driven to cemeteries, taken on a tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, shown tombstone art. Sculptors Robert Aitken, Harriet Frishmuth, Charles Keck, Augustus Lukeman and the Piccirilli Brothers lent pieces to the exhibition. And at the annual banquet, the chief address was de- livered by Bainbridge Colby. "I want to use this occasion," declared Woodrow Wilson's last Secretary of State, "to make an earnest plea for the revival...
Bought and paid for by the Duke Endowment, a loft. bronze statue stood last week in the Manhattan studio of Sculptor Charles Keck. It shows the late, great Tobaccoman James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke in frock coat, baggy trousers, clodhoppers. In his right hand is a cane; in his left, a cigar...
...undergraduates were supposed to loll about with smooth hair and natty clothes indulging their social instincts. In the decade after the War. the "country club" stigma wore off. This was principally because Princeton could then beat Yale and Harvard at football. There were giants in those great days- "Stan" Keck, "Al" Wittmer, "Hank" Garrity, Don Lourie, Herb Treat, Ed McMillan, "Pink" Baker,- Howell van Gerbig- and Princeton's alumni were happy. But then Princeton began taking itself seriously as an intellectual centre, a place to train the mind. Its curriculum and entrance requirements were stiffened. Learning was made more...