Word: pupils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sail this week from Charleston to the Pan American Peace Conference at Buenos Aires, he had to do intensive studying before leaving. Every morning his tutor, Budget Director Daniel Bell, came to the White House to give him an hour's instruction. Afterward the tutor departed leaving Pupil Roosevelt with his homework, the budget requests of one or two more departments...
...sensitive picture of the artist's young brother, Achille, as a gold-laced aspirant in the French Navy. In sporting pictures there was the vividly painted False Start lent by John Hay ("Jock") Whitney. For print collectors there was the fine etching of Degas friend and pupil, Mary Cassatt in the Louvre. For balletomanes there were half a dozen pastel studies of the saucy, bandy-legged little dancing girls on which Degas fame chiefly rests...
...branch of the family's Neapolitan banking house. His mother (Adele Musson) was born in the U. S.; her brother Michel ran a cotton brokerage business in New Orleans. Edgar Degas started as a well-intentioned student. Ingres was his life-long ideal, but lessons from a pupil of a pupil of Ingres was as close as he could come...
...himself. He is self-critical only when speaking of his school days. He got consistently poor marks. His father, a basso at the Imperial Opera, wanted to make him a lawyer, consented to a musical career only when Rimsky-Korsakov was sufficiently impressed to take the boy for a pupil...
With five children to support, funds were low in the Hoffman house. Malvina Hoffman earned money to continue her art studies by designing book jackets, wall paper, linoleum. In Paris she became a pupil, later a good friend of aging Auguste Rodin, won her first real fame with a bronze of Anna Pavlova as a dancing bacchante. Her best known works since then have been three heads of Ignace Paderewski (The Statesman, The Artist, The Friend), the colossal stone figures over the entrance to London's Bush House and the recumbent crusader that is Harvard's War Memorial...