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Died. Sarah Edwards Nast, 91, relict of famed Cartoonist Thomas Nast (no kin of Publisher Condé Nast) who invented the political symbols of the Tammany Hall tiger, the Republican elephant, the Democratic donkey; in New Rochelle...
...Orchestra. Messages of congratulations came in from President Hoover, Secretary of the Interior Wilbur, many a university president. Among famed alumni of Washington University are Taftian Secretary of Commerce & Labor Charles Nagel. Coolidgian Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis, Senators Roscoe Conklin Patterson and Harry Bartow Hawes, Publisher Conde Nast, Authoress Fannie Hurst, Missouri's present Governor Henry Stewart Caulfield. Washington has the West's richest university art collection (over...
...Mellon); Miss Mary Elizabeth Beebe (daughter of Philadelphia Socialite Lucius Beebe); Mrs. Eugene H. Dooman and Mrs, David Edward Finley (wives of U. S. Embassymen); Miss Winifred Holt Bloodgood (daughter of famed Cancer Researcher Joseph Colt Bloodgood of Johns Hopkins University); Miss Denise Livingston (of New York) ; Miss Natica Nast (daughter of Publisher Conde Nast). Because Ailsa Mellon Bruce had to be presented at Court before she could present others, Ambassador Mellon asked Madame Aimé de Fleuriau, wife of the French Ambassador, to pinch...
...Thomas Nast invented most of the vocabulary of the U. S. political cartoon. He invented the figure of gaunt Uncle Sam, the Tammany Tiger (a reference to the tiger painted on the dashboard of Boss Tweed's old fire engine, now in the Museum of the City of New York), the Democratic Donkey and Republican Elephant. No other U. S. cartoonist has ever equaled his power, the strength of his line. Out of fashion for ten years before he died, he accepted the post of U. S. consul at Guayaquil, Ecuador from President Roosevelt, died at his post of yellow...
...force of statement and finish of workmanship are not to be matched anywhere in present day caricature. . . . One wonders why this should be, and one wonders also if the showing of Nast's work in a museum may not key up our draughtsmen to bolder expression. It certainly will key up the collectors...