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...extraordinary picture. Perhaps the first commissioned portrait of a workingman, the painting (opposite) is on view this Labor Day week at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. Actually, credit for the picture should go not so much to Painter Neagle as to his subject: Blacksmith Pat Lyon...
...Lyon was no mere horseshoe man; he had a devil of a way with all sorts of ironwork, including intricate locks. Once he was commissioned to build a strongbox and did the job with customary thoroughness. Being disappointed in his fee, Lyon snapped the box shut. Since no one else could reopen it, the box stayed shut until Lyon got double pay. Lyon's growing reputation finally got him into trouble. A Philadelphia bank had been robbed, and people said nobody could have got past its locks and bars except Blacksmith Lyon, who had recently repaired them. Protesting manfully...
Three months later the true robbers were caught and Lyon was released on bail. He lived under a cloud for seven long years, finally brought suit for malicious prosecution against his accusers, and won $9,000 damages. With his new wealth, Lyon went to one of the most fashionable painters in town and commissioned a portrait. He had no wish to be portrayed as a gentleman, he informed the startled John Neagle, but as a workingman. Yet the canvas must be splendid. It must show him lifesize, laboring honestly at his forge. And in the background must be seen...
...busiest model in Hollywood. In one month she adorned the covers of five magazines. The film studios cocked an eye. One day Norma Jeane got a call from two of them: Starmaker Howard Hughes and 2Oth Century-Fox. She went to Fox first. Cried Casting Director Ben Lyon: "It's Jean Harlow all over again!" He signed her for $125 a week. He slapped a new label on her (Monroe was the maiden name of Norma Jeane's mother, and Marilyn began with an M too), and put her to work on her first part, in Scudda...
...John Lyon Reid & Partners of San Francisco, for the Hillsdale High School in San Mateo, Calif., designed with removable partitions and interchangeable wall panels for maximum planning flexibility and future growth...