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...world Press flashed what promised to be either the archeological story-of-the-year or the year's No. 1 archeological hoax. André Malraux is a handsome young writer who has done some poking around in French Indo-China. In 1933 he was awarded the Prix Goncourt, top French literary kudos. Last month in a plane borrowed from a friend in the airmail service he and Capt. Corniglion Molinier, army pilot, took off from Paris for Djibouti, bent on finding the capital of the dusky queen of Biblical legend. Last week's meager reports indicated that...
...Bigelow Houghton's big Corning Glass Works. Visitors beheld a coruscant and cleverly lit display of wine glasses, bowls, plates, bottles, candlesticks, vases; a tableful of heavy molded "architectural" glass for cornices, tiles, columns. Prize of the show was a slender glass fountain by Sydney B. Waugh, 1929 Prix de Rome winner. Other exhibits: a pair of glass slippers made to fit Gloria Swanson; a replica of Steuben's 16 by 8 in. glass casket in which, in Santo Domingo City, repose a few handfuls of ashes that were once supposed to be Christopher Columbus...
...Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, has just received by way of the French embassy the Prix Janssen, the gold medal of the Societe Astronomique de France, which was awarded to him this summer. The Prix Janssen was named for a distinguished French astronomer of the nineteenth century whose outstanding discovery was that of the method of observing solar prominences without total solar eclipses, a contribution of great importance in respect to studies...
...when his brother told him the jug was brown. Lucky Paul Manship was color blind. He wasted no time switching to clay. After three years in Sculptor Solon Borglum's studio and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, he rambled through Spain (1908). Next year he won the Prix de Rome. From 1916 to 1925 he was too busy to hold a one-man show, to act Bohemian. He won nearly every U. S. prize for sculpture, every commission he competed for. He speckled the U. S. with his expensive marbles and bronzes, every one slick...
...first composer to be awarded a fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. In Rome his colleagues twitted him for wearing suits that were a little too natty, for ties that never quite went with his vivid shirts, for preferring burned beefsteak to the Italian delicacies that the other Prix de Rome students were learning to fancy, for sitting down methodically eight hours a day to write music which might or might not go into the wastebasket...