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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last December Thomas Eakins' widow died, in the plain Philadelphia house to which she had gone as a bride in 1884. Fortnight ago the Eakins pictures she had left went on display in adjacent galleries. The first day's sale alone came to more than the $15,000 Eakins made from painting in his 72 years. Eakins' portraits were too explicit to please his indignant sitters, while his interest in the human figure led him, to paint nudes too explicit for his time. When he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts "the female models...
Many a man knows at least one statue he would like to down, but it usually takes a war or a revolution to give license to such effective criticism. Last week German invaders in Posen, Poland destroyed a twelve-foot statue of Woodrow Wilson, carved by Gutzon Borglum and presented to the city in 1931 by silver-maned Ignace Jan Paderewski. The critics left this sign on its site: "The American sculptor made the legs too short, the body too long and the head too large. Such an artistic eyesore cannot continue to stand in the city...
...more college players who put on a show for U. S. football fans last Saturday, most fabulous was big, blond Paul Christman, quarterback for Missouri. In New York City's Yankee Stadium, Christman's hipper-dipper passes and lunging plunges were the margin between victory and defeat over New York University. But Christman is more than a good footballer, he is an extraordinary one: to him football is just a game...
Collier's last week featured Paul Christman as the Dizzy Dean of football. His Missouri college mates strongly disapprove of the comparison. To point out that he is just a merry, modest young fellow, they tell how, after a Missouri defeat, Big Paul ambled off the field, wagging his head: "Me a football player? I should know better...
...National Horse Show in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, biggest of the 300-odd shows held in the U. S. each year. But after 55 years, the National is definitely established as a major U. S. sport event. Though starchy socialites peered at one another from arena boxes last week, the galleries were packed with fans to whom the competition in the ring was more exciting than the competition in the boxes...