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...February 1929, Sir Joseph Duveen (who last winter became at last Lord Duveen) was in a tight spot. After eight years of preparation, Mme Andree Hahn of Paris and Kansas City sued him for $500,000. claiming that he had prevented her from selling a Leonardo da Vinci painting to the Kansas City Art Institute for $250,000. when he pronounced it only a graceless copy of the Louvre's La Belle Fenonni...
...able to give fair estimates of their achievements. On Picasso, of whom he knows the least, he goes furthest wrong. After saying that Picasso's genius is so great that anything he may produce cannot be without value, an absurd supposition in reference to anyone, he compares him to Leonardo, and lapses into further unqualified superlatives. His discussion of Cocteau, on the other hand, is brilliant, and gives a new light on his extraordinary personality and his influence on the present generation...
...sprouting upward from a base of equal height. Pulling the ripcord, Italy's Dictator revealed a 300-ton obelisk of Carrara marble embellished with no inscription except nine letters in high relief-MUSSOLINI. Apropos a gymnastic exhibition by both sexes which next took place in the stadium, Signer Leonardo Arpinati, Undersecretary of Interior and head of the Italian Olympic Committee, revealed last week the result of experiments at Bologna by Italian doctors on Italian sportswomen. "Our investigations have proved," said Signer Arpinati, ''that sports do have a beneficial effect on woman's physique. The sportswoman, however...
...Angler Isadore Paisnor James: Charles W. Eliot Robert Chester Smith Whistler's Works Francis Van Vanice James: Charles W. Eliot Class of 1934 Henry Aranow Education of Henry Adams Milton Bornstein Combe: Tours of Dr. Syntax Harold Simson Cone Morison: Development of Harvard University Robert Calhoun Creel Romance of Leonardo Da Vinci William Frederick Ebling Sheridan: The Critic Edward Settle Godfrey Morison: Development of Harvard University Abraham Lincoln Gordon Life of Benvenuto Cellini Clement Lowell Harriss Carroll: Alice in Wonderland Isadore Herman Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress Robert Kaplan Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield William Wallace Kirkpatrick Byron's Poems Paul Lachlan...
Medicine was harder ploughing than he thought. Isamu Noguchi drifted back to sculpture, attending night classes at Manhattan's Leonardo da Vinci Art School, where he was discovered with loud hosannahs by Director Onorio Ruotolo who took him into his home, gave him his own studio to work in. worked over him as hard as any horse trainer with a promising yearling. In 1927 the colt came through with a Guggenheim Fellowship. Isamu Noguchi went to Paris and immediately apprenticed himself as a stone cutter to Constantin Brancusi. one of the few sculptors to have a piece of pastry named...