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After the game, the press cited this as one of the poorest showings of sports-manship they had seen in a long time, but when seen in the light of McCray's explanation, this charge seems extremely unfair...
...first impression was the same. Despite the Congress' slightly incoherent Utopianism, works on view were of a remarkably high character, presented the highest artistic average of any group show of the past season. Artists exhibiting were far from unknown. They ranged from ultra-conservatives like Paul Manship through progressives like Leon Kroll, Rockwell Kent, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, George Biddle, to complete abstractionists like Stuart Davis. A few scenes of the Spanish War were on the walls but for the most part propaganda was left to the Congress' various pamphlets...
Sculptor Paul Manship's gigantic fountain of a leaping Prometheus has stood patiently in the sunken plaza of Manhattan's Rockefeller Center for three years, the butt of more violent criticism, more half-baked humor than any Manhattan Statue since the erection of Frederick MacMonnies' Civic Virtue. Last week artisans at the Roman Bronze Works were putting finishing touches on one of the biggest jobs of bronze casting the company has ever handled, and workmen in Rockefeller Center were chopping holes in the Fifth Avenue pavement for a statue of Atlas destined to distract public attention from...
...vocabulary of Republican National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, there is no more contemptuous adjective than "Farleyized." Tirelessly he has belabored Democratic National Chairman James A. Farley as a veritable monster of spoils-manship, a brass-conscienced destroyer of good government. Early in the campaign, Chairman Farley plaintively inquired:"We're both in the same racket. Why does he take digs at me?"Since then he has treated Chairman Hamilton to the ultimate political insult of silence, ignoring him with the contempt of a St. Bernard for a yapping Pekingese. Only when the Republican Chairman backed up his Vice...
...Henry Kreis were getting together on a Treasury Department commission of $7,500 each for collaboration on "a harmonious pair of sculptures" for the façade of The Bronx Post Office in New York City. Sculptors Rudy & Kreis were winners in an open competition in which Sculptors Paul Manship, Edward McCartan and Maurice Sterne judged some 400 models...