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Epstein studied at Manhattan's Art Students League, made a little money as an illustrator. In his early 203 he invaded Paris, became a close friend of Sculptor Constantin Brancusi. Together they "discovered" and fell under the spell of African carving. Later, Epstein staked out elegant old London as his chosen battleground, began alternately shocking and dazzling the British with hugely energetic, part sentimental and part brutal monuments. Epstein's bull-bold, pink alabaster Adam made strong men blush, girls giggle, and dowagers howl for blood. "I saw my subject," Epstein rumblingly explained, mankind." "as His the contorted...
Died. Sir Jacob Epstein, 78, sculptor of powerful ideas and haunting portraits; of a coronary thrombosis; in London...
Died. Claude Grahame-White, 79, popular barnstorming pilot of aviation's infancy, Britain's first qualified pilot, who demonstrated the multiple uses of the airplane: he was the first to carry mail by air (letters from London to King George V at Windsor), the first to try night flying (boys trained their bicycle lights on the runway to help him take off; friends formed a procession of automobile lights along his route), the first to mount a machine gun on a plane and later use it in dogfights in World War I; in Nice, France...
...Stellarum. Author Clarke has all the qualifications to keep the 18 short stories and two short novels in this omnibus in far-out orbit. He took first-class honors in physics at London University, headed the British Interplanetary Society, now, at 41, turns out space gas between star-watching and undersea-photography expeditions to the far ends of the earth. He sounds thoroughly convincing when he writes, at a moment of high dramatic intensity (a star is blowing up): "Those last exposures did it! ... They show the gaseous shell expanding round the nova. And the speed agrees with your Doppler...
...name for London Surgeon A. W. Lipmann Kessel. He was helped out on the book by London Journalist John St. John...