Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bitter field of Antietam seems far removed from a generation to which Chateau Thierry is already history. The presentation yesterday of the portrait of Oliver Wendell Holmes to the Law School pays a just tribute to a man who has filled the years between these milestones with quiet judgment. Graduated from Harvard with the class of 1861, the present Justice of the Supreme Court left academic Boston, to be wounded three times in the Civil War. Closing his service on the staff of General Wright, he began a law practice through which he acquired a reputation that finally placed...
June Day, excitable Manhattan and Paris night club entertainer, went to Manhattan's Independent Artists exhibit (TIME, March 10) to see her portrait by Alfred H. Maurer. Indignant at the impressionistic rendition of her charms, she seized a knife from a bystander, slashed at the picture, screaming: "I'll show that bum. . . . That guy couldn't even paint a barn!" Said offended Artist Maurer: "I didn't let her see it. I told her I would surprise her with it. It seems that I did. What did a night club singer expect, a madonna?" Replied Miss Day: "I never looked...
...honor him on his seventy-fifth birthday. Professor Hanus was presented with a fund to be devoted to establishing a permanent memorial to him in the Graduate School of Education, which he was instrumental in founding. The memorial will take the form of a bronze plaque, bust, or portrait depending on Professor Hanus's wishes...
...Beale '82, Royall Professor of Law, yesterday announced that a portrait of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes '61, which has been purchased by friends of Judge Holmes, would be presented to the Harvard Law School on next Thursday with speeches by President Lowell, Dean Pound, and Judge Learned Hand '93, of the New York State Supreme Court...
Many cinema-seers insist that Corinne Griffith is the most beautiful woman in pictures. Fifty famed artists have painted her portrait in oils, her ankles are shapely, and her hands have been modeled by numerous sculptors. Her husband, producer Walter Morosco, uses a bronze mould of her left hand as a paper weight on his desk. Last week in Los Angeles she pleaded guilty to a charge that she had tried to evade paying-part of the tax on her 1927 income ($198,000) and was fined $1,000. She says that after she has made one more picture...