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...creator was Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, a Dublin-born descendant of French shoemakers renowned in the late 19th century for his public stat ues - New York's equestrian Sherman, Chicago's Lincoln, Boston's Shaw and Washington's Adams Memorial. Diana was his favorite, though, and from the moment Architect Stanford White asked him to sculpt her as a fitting finial for the Garden (then under construction), she was a labor of love, his first nude, his first ideal figure. Saint-Gau dens chose an Irish girl named Nellie Fitzpatrick as his model, made...
...Saint-Gaudens added a flowing cloak of copper sheets, so she could act as a wind vane as well, and up she went on the Garden tower, to twirl on a swivel before the prevailing breeze. New York fell in love at first sight. She became the protectress of the cat show, the horse show, the sportsmen's show, the prizefights and circuses. Around 1905, a severe storm ripped away her cloak; from then on she was bolted securely down. She presided over William Jennings Bryan's nomination for President, saw Jack Dempsey knock out Bill Brennan...
...Wall Street flyer by Max Shu!man with tunes by Hollywood's Elmer Bernstein. There will also be slices of several lives: George M., with Cohan's own songs and Joel Grey (Cabaret) in the title role; Dumas and Son, with score based on themes by Saint-Saĕns; and Fagade, starring Vienna's Marisa Mell as Mata Hari and staged by Vincente Minnelli...
Died. Matthew R. Goodman, 20, Cornell University senior and only son of Author Paul Goodman, social philosopher (Growing Up Absurd, Compulsory Mis-Education) and unofficial saint of New Left campus movements; of injuries when he fell from a ledge on New Hampshire's North Percy Peak while on a climbing expedition...
...fragile son Alexis. Rasputin not only destroyed the morale of the aristocracy, he also made it impossible for Nicholas to heed sensible advice until it was too late. And he fatally fractured the image of the Czar in the mind of the masses. The imperial pair saw a calumniated saint in Rasputin; the people, in the words of a monarchist member of the Duma, saw "the beastly, drunken unclean face of a bald satyr from Tobolsk...