Word: lexington
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nothing new for artists to fake antiques. Nor is it new for confidence men to take in wealthy suckers by posing as artists. But in France and in Lexington, Ky. last week two extraordinarily clever fakers provided two new twists...
...case in Lexington, Ky. was a good deal more complicated. There, four years ago, appeared a sculptor in his middle 30s who said that his name was Augustus Donfred H. Build. He was the son of a New York physician, said he, had studied in Florence for seven years, and met his pretty wife, Corinne, while executing a commission in Tennessee...
Among the horse-and-dog lovers of Fayette County, Build flourished. For his heroic statue of Guy Axworthy, famed trotting stallion, he was reported to have received $15,000. He made a bust of a dead superintendent of schools, of the founder of the Lexington Leader, statues of several champion great Danes, of a trotting mare and sulky. Then he disappeared...
...University of Chicago has provided a professorship for Eduard Benes-as Washington College at Lexington, Va. provided one for Lee- as soon as Czechoslovakia's last President will take it. But the tired little man was seriously ill. His ears were being treated for an ailment which has affected his sense of balance...
...Although most of them are incurable, less than 20% of addicts admitted to the Lexington Hospital had a really intense craving for narcotics. Reason: bootleg narcotics are not only expensive, but highly adulterated...