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...artist thus admired in his own profession does not often grow rich, but commissions ranging up to $15,000 have given Augustus John an old stone manor and a bright pink studio in Hampshire, another studio in Wales. John offspring include Son Teddy, a successful professional boxer, Daughter Poppet, who married well, and Son Casper, a member of the Air Ministry Mission recently...
...with a pot of pink geraniums. It's no go the Government grants, it's no go the elections, Sit on your arse for fifty years and hang your hat on a pension. It's no go my honey love, it's no go my poppet; Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit. The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall for ever, But if you break the bloody glass you won't hold up the weather...
Exception to the rule of painstaking British portraitists is venerable, bearded, cantankerous Augustus Edwin John, 57. He had always ignored the Academy until it elected him in 1921. Britain's most popular eccentric, who dresses like a Paris Bohemian of 1890 and named one of his daughters Poppet, last week exhibited two bold, admirable portraits...
...Army flyers had swooped into the air from Los Angeles. Their resolve was to shatter all existing records for endurance flights, to stay in the sky until men or engines succumbed. Experts had allowed their three Wright Whirlwind motors 400 flying hours before bearings splintered and cracked, poppet valves ceased to pop. The wind-bronzed flyers seemed staunch, infallible...
...trip, bought the rights for the light car field. No U. S. passenger cars but the Stearns-Knight and Willys-Knight may yet use this motor, although the Federal Truck has it and, strangely, the Yellow Cab, which is now owned by General Motors, great maker and marketer of poppet-valve motor cars...