Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Atlanta on the 26th birthday of Robert Tyre Jones Jr., A. Wise Wood last week called Jones a "young knight" for refusing a $50,000 house and lot offered to him by his admirers. When he had stopped talking Mrs. Bobby Jones unveiled a portrait of her husband painted by Margaret Fitzhugh Browne...
John Gilbert Winant, onetime (1925-26) Governor of New Hampshire, bought for his private collection the famed Edgehill portrait of Thomas Jefferson, painted by Gilbert Stuart. He bought it from Francis Burton Harrison, great-great-nephew of Thomas Jefferson, onetime (1913-21) Governor General of the Philippine Islands, now resident of Scotland. Never until now has this portrait, by many , regarded as the finest ever made by famed Gilbert Stuart, valued at $100,000, belonged to a person in no way related to famed Thomas Jefferson...
Edsel Ford last week purchased Gilbert Stuart's portrait of Major-General Henry Dearborn from the Enrich Galleries in Manhattan. He had the picture hung in the office of the Ford Motor Co., at Dearborn, Mich, where he works...
President Calles, by Luis Hidalgo, famed Mexican caricaturist, was a most grossly insulting and funny portrait of this famed statesman. Hidalgo's faunlike Lindy showed the aviator riding a ridiculous horse around the world...
Emil Ludwig, best-selling biographer of Napoleon and Bismarck, announced last week, as he sailed from Manhattan on the Majestic, that his next word-portrait will be of Abraham Lincoln. "I carry him in my pocket," said Herr Ludwig, showing a Lincoln penny. "He fascinates...