Word: lorado
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...Empty Chair. While he was at war his wife had gotten into politics. A onetime actress, a daughter of famed Sculptor Lorado Taft,* Emily Taft Douglas had taken the stump against the Republicans' rabidly isolationist Representative-at-large, Stephen A. Day, had concentrated on one issue-internationalism-and beaten...
...Actor Melvyn Douglas, now an Army major shepherding entertainers in the China-Burma-India theater. Miss Gahagan is a former Broadway star (Tonight or Never), mother of two, a passionate New Dealer. Another new Douglas (no relation) in the House is Emily Taft Douglas, daughter of the late Sculptor Lorado Taft, distant cousin of William Howard Taft. Her husband, a University of Chicago economics professor on military leave, was defeated for the Senate in 1942, is now a Marine captain serving in the South Pacific. Third new Congresswoman is Connecticut's grey, matronly Mrs. Chase Going Woodhouse, political economy...
Working in the studio of the late Sculptor Lorado Taft at Chicago, she analyzed materials from living trees, old log cabins and bridges, refuse from sawmills and barrel factories, charcoal from old campfires, relics from Indian caves and graves, a ton of tree sections supplied by a Wisconsin paper manufacturer who had just taken a paper contract for LIFE. She patiently placed pieces hundreds of years old in sequence by their overlapping ring patterns, and reconstructed growth calendars for several types of trees...
...statue of Washington carved by the late Sculptor Lorado Taft, which for 29 years had ignominiously squatted "in the mud" in Seattle, Wash., was upped to a 27-ft. pedestal near University of Washington's Henry Art Gallery. Found under Washington's feet were three undignified objects: a whiskey bottle cap, a punctured balloon, and a bemired note to "Dear Harry." The note: "Hiya, egg. . . . What have you been doing lately? Do you still go on those long walks like we used to? 'Bye, you snow bat.* Can you read this? If I thought you could...
Franklin Roosevelt did not "win his Phi Beta Kappa key through scholarship." Twice awarded him honoris causa, it was given by both Hobart College chapter and the Harvard College chapter in 1929. Other famed honorary Phi Beta Kappas: John Marshall. Washington Irving, John Greenleaf Whittier, Lorado Taft, Calvin Coolidge, Glenn Frank. In the past three years Phi Beta Kappa has awarded no honorary memberships...