Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...error published in TIME, May 26, in connection with the death of John R. Sinnock, chief engraver of the United States Mint, Philadelphia. He was given the "credit of being the designer of the Purple Heart. This is a mistake, as I was the designer and Mr. Sinnock the sculptor. This is substantiated by records of the War Department...
...judge didn't know it, but the infant whose name was in question, yowling upstairs, was to be a famous sculptor. The clenched red hands of young Daniel Chester French would one day mold Concord's familiar Minute Man, John Harvard at Cambridge, and the seated Lincoln for Washington's Lincoln Memorial. He would live 81 fortunate years, and his wife and daughter would each write a book about him. Daniel's daughter, Margaret French Cresson, herself a sculptor, has written the better book, Journey into Fame (Harvard University Press; $4.50), published this week...
Vindication. In Long Branch, N.J., Maurice Podell, who as a little boy used to fiddle with his food instead of eating it as he should, attained fame of a sort as a sculptor in rye bread...
When the great voice trumpeted behind him, how must the Saint, on the verge of the Apocalypse, have looked? That was the question Sculptor John Angel has spent eight months trying to answer. Angel, one of the top church sculptors, had been commissioned to carve Saint John for the central doorpost of Manhattan's slowly building Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, which was originally designed to be Romanesque and is gradually growing up to be Gothic...
...white-mustached John Angel has been making statues for the unfinished Cathedral more than 20 years. One of a tailor's ten children, he grew up in the British cathedral town of Exeter, entered a Gothic studio as an apprentice ornament-carver when he was 14. Says Sculptor Angel: "I never went to school; I'm an ignoramus...