Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Amigos & Atoms. Editor Harrison puts out a partially bilingual paper. He sprinkles Spanish words through the English news stories, even uses them in headlines (VAUGHAN'S AMIGOS BLABBING). He thinks it a good day when he can run on Page One "a political scandal, an archeological discovery, a sculptor's prize, and an Indian fracas-all local...
Amigos & Atoms. Editor Harrison puts out a partially bilingual paper. He sprinkles Spanish words through the English news stories, even uses them in headlines (VAUGHAN'S AMIGOS BLABBING). He thinks it a good day when he can run on Page One "a political scandal, an archeological discovery, a sculptor's prize, and an Indian fracas-all local...
...just shipped the Statue of Liberty (in 200-odd cases) to the U.S. The plot concerns a circulation war over the statue between Joseph Pulitzer's N.Y. World and James Gordon Bennett's N.Y. Herald. A Herald photographer brings over from Paris the girl who was Sculptor Bartholdi's model for the statue-only it turns out that she wasn't. The customary hocus-pocus leads to the customary happy ending...
Live-wire Editor Louis Seltzer thought Cleveland needed a World War II Memorial, preferably a big one. In 1945, his promotion-conscious Press began beating Page-One drums to raise a $100,000 memorial fund, soon thumped it over the top. Seltzer then asked Sculptor Marshall...
Hurriedly, the Press asked Sculptor Fredericks for his interpretation of the controversial work. Explained he: "It is essentially religious . . . The statue of the youth, reaching upward toward his God, is a symbol of the souls of the men who fought and died. It represents their hope for a world free from war, pestilence and fear." Last week, all further work on the statue was temporarily stopped. If public opinion insisted, Editor Seltzer was prepared to edit the statue. Said he: "We don't want to impose anything on the people they don't want...