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...fortune to become an assistant to France's great Auguste Rodin. When Milles joined the faculty of Michigan's Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1929 to teach sculpture (until 1950), he was already recognized as Sweden's greatest living sculptor...
Citation: " 'The greatest phenomenon among the sculptors,' said the immortal Rodin. A patriot whose genius expressed with epic grandeur the indomitable spirit of his beloved Croatia...
...despite its "injustices," the bachot should stay. Onetime Boxing Champion Georges Carpentier bluntly announced: "I am against the baccalauréat." Actor Jean-Louis Barrault said, "I adore it," but Actor Sacha Guitry, who spent six terms in one form, snorted: "Tellme, what good would the bachot have done Rodin...
...painting, Chato scurries around to the others to help them make sure they are not being outdone. He places donors' names conspicuously beneath the paintings, and ballyhoos their gifts through his newspaper chain. Coffee King Geremia Lunardelli is the donor of a Goya, a Manet, two Renoirs, a Rodin bronze, two Toulouse-Lautrecs, a Degas and a Ceézanne; the Jafet family (iron) has come through with a Tintoretto, a Renoir and a Gobelin tapestry; Bank President (and former Ambassador to the U.S.) Walther Moreira Salles is donor of a Picasso, a Degas and a Modigliani; Sugar Magnate...
...longer necessary to squint closely at a picture to see who did it. Conveniently placed in the chronological order of the galleries was a windowed nook. There gallerygoers may rest on comfortable couches, smoke and contemplate either Central Park and the Manhattan skyline outside or a masterpiece like Rodin's Eternal Springtime inside...