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...rutty red roads one August night 19 years ago, a man named B. B. ("Bunce") Napier drove an automobile in the back of which crouched a State prisoner about to be lynched. The prisoner was Leo Frank, young Brooklyn Jew who had gone to Atlanta to superintend a pencil factory. When 14-year-old Mary Phagan was found murdered in the plant, Frank, amid a popular uproar against Jews in general, was arrested, tried, convicted, sentenced to death. Governor John Marshall Slaton imperiled his own life by commuting Frank's sentence to life imprisonment. One attempt to kill Frank...
...sparkling portrait of Victor Huge is in the place of honor at the exhibition "Romantic Illustration in France," which will remain at the Fogg Museum throughout the month. Beside the lithograph of Achille Deveria -- lent by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston -- is a pencil sketch by Hugo of a hill town and an impression of his unique etching "Lightning." Beneath, a copy of Delacroix's "Faust" is opened at the lithograph showing Marguerite in Church. The keynote of the exhibition is set by this central group; the remaining displays amplify the union of author and artist...
...century were on, an interest in types of people took the place of the more imaginative work. A whole series of little books called "Physiologies" were issued in 1841 and '42. For these pamphlets the biting accuracy of Daumier's pencil was admirably suited. A whole case is filled with these vignettes, where Daumier is seen as the logical heritor of the Romantic illustrators. Exhibited with copies of the "Physiologies" are three pages of proofs submitted to Daumier by the engravers and initiated by him in pencil. These precious fragments have been lent by Mr. Russel Allen, to whose generosity...
Superintendent Harold G. Campbell called for a list of names, promised an inquiry. Swart Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia grabbed a pencil, figured that there were no more crackpots among teachers than in any other large group. "You know," he remarked cheerfully, "we have epileptics in our police department...
...with prison themes. Sing Sing's Walter C. Brown had a garish interpretation of his jail's aviary; Michigan State Prison's Convict No. 15870 showed a hunched cellmate, a corner of the jailyard where straw-hatted inmates raked grass. Most arresting was a series of pencil sketches by Sylvia Carlisle of the Reformatory for Women in Framingham, Mass. depicting such routine incidents as The Rising Bell, The Bucket Line, Gymnasium, The Hospital. The anonymity of the convict's life she expressed by failing to draw features on any of her figures' faces. Even...