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Died. Sir Muirhead Bone, 77, famed British artist, best known for his detailed architectural etchings and watercolors, accurate drawings and sketches of Britain's fighting men in both world wars; of leukemia ; in Oxford, England...
Recipients are Nathan Kravetz, vice principal at the Cathay Center School in Los Angeles; David B. Muirhead, instructor at St. Cloud State Teachers College, Minnesota; Futrelle L. Temple, principal of the Sylacauga, Ala., high school; and Alvin Warren, educationist with the United States Indian Service in Albuquerque...
Caught in the crystal like flies in amber were Surrealist Salvador Dali's woman with bureau drawers for breasts, a massive Spanish fountain by Etcher Sir Muirhead Bone, an opium-ridden fantasy of Painter-Poet Jean Cocteau, a woman feeding hens, by Iowa's Grant Wood. Even the shading of characteristic artists' tools was faithfully reproduced, from the wavy Japanese brush strokes of Isamu Noguchi's cat to the sculptural modeling of a Maillol nude...
...Sculptor Epstein, not long after he settled in London, received his first big commission through the kind offices of Etcher Muirhead Bone: 18 colossal figures for the façade of the British Medical Association's new building in the Strand. For his theme he chose The Birth of Energy and his uncompromising, starkly modeled figures represented such ideas as Primal Energy (a nude man blowing the breath of life into an atom), The Brain (a figure holding a winged skull), Manliness (a figure whose physical attributes were very obvious). Preachers and conservative editors roared denunciation...
...dust facts. They were there to trade and they knew it. Otherwise the Japanese delegation would not have been headed by able Juitsu Kitaoka, a small, dapper diplomat with a reputation for guile. Otherwise Britain would not have sent a delegation of 210 members including Lieut. Colonel Anthony John Muirhead, Parliamentary secretary to the Ministry of Labor, or India her High Commissioner in London, Sir Firoz Khan Noon. Czechoslovakia would not have sent her Minister of Social Welfare Jaromir Necas, nor would Germany, who withdrew from I. L. O. when she quit the League, have sent Attache Walther Becker...