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...late great Anders Zorn. While in Munich, just before the Spanish-American War, Artist Gibson received a commission for some weekly pictures. A bald nervous little German came around looking for a job. From that followed a long series remembered by all Gibsonians as "The Education of Mr. Pipp...
...When Mr. Pipp acquired a daughter, a magnificent creature with a bust, a pompadour, and a Grecian profile (see cut), Charles Dana Gibson became world-famed. No U.S. illustrator has ever had such a vogue. Collier's paid him $100,000 for a series of drawings. The Kaiser gave the Gibson Girl his official approval. There were songs about la fille Gibson on the Paris boulevards. A framed Gibson girl was as important to the U.S. undergraduate of 30 years ago as a bulldog pipe and a pearl-buttoned reefer...
...Girl had a formidable mother who was forever trying to marry her to titled foreigners with beards and ribbons across their shirtfronts (the marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt to the Duke of Marlborough was a sensation of the decade). She had a wizened little father by the name of Mr. Pipp, who became Artist Gibson's most successful character. She had a number of suitors who were either too fat or too thin, wore reefers with enormous pearl buttons, and killed chin-bearded farmers' chickens by driving their Stevens-Duryeas recklessly on country roads...
...Life's altruistic crusade last spring). But these four quaffers were not drunk, just pleasantly "fried." Their faces could be found in any Gibson album of 30 years ago. Observers found a curious old-fashioned touch in the fact that one of them, looking like a younger Mr. Pipp, was apparently imbibing hot scotch with lemon, a British beverage almost unknown to the Prohibition generation...
...Pipp scored for the Yankees in the second inning, but Young of the Giants evened the count by going home on Meusel's liner in the fourth. This was one of the hardest fought contests of the series, and was characterized by the absence of errors. The batteries were Mays and Schang for the Yankees and Douglas and Snyder for the Giants...