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Fifty-eight-year-old Jacob Epstein, radical, Manhattan-born British sculptor whose monolithic works have created periodic storms among England's art critics, was awarded his first honorary degree (LL. D.), by Scotland's Aberdeen University. Said Aberdeen in honoring him: "The works of Mr. Epstein have sometimes evoked a lively criticism, which has died away as the critics themselves came to learn or came to be ignored...
...merry-go-round of Roy Chapman Andrews, John Hay, Gerald Chapman and John Hays Hammond with the guess that he was anything from a diplomat to a gunman; his times anything from the early eighteen hundreds to the present day. Fact is, he was a law-trained, wealthy politicaster, Manhattan-born, Harvard-bred and of old New England stock, who never held public office but was rampant in all the reform movements around the century's turn; who wrote widely and voluminously on subjects ranging from children's plays to the philosophy of Plato, from the Antigone...
...least 30 years the name of Manhattan-born Sculptor Jacob Epstein has made news in London and enraged conservative Britons (TIME, March 25, 1935 et ante). Last week after nearly two years of comparative obscurity, the head fell off one of his earliest statues and slapped Sculptor Epstein right into the headlines again...
...while newshawks waited patiently and 310 artists, many of them nationally prominent, nervously bit their nails. Fortnight ago somebody jogged Secretary Ickes' elbow and the jury's award was approved without comment. The mural contract, a $5,500 job to be completed within a year, went to Manhattan-born Muralist Louis Bouch...
...propose to give you a constitution of the type the Irish people themselves would choose if Great Britain were a million miles away." Last November fiery, wild-eyed, Manhattan-born Eamon de Valera, President of the Irish Free State, bit these words off as distracted Britain stood on the brink of the Edward-Simpson crisis...