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...organizer, she was a founder of such diverse bodies as the Junior League (with Anna Eleanor Roosevelt). Manhattan's swank Colony Club, the Community Councils for National Defense (later to become the charitarian Community Councils), the Eastern Livestock Co-operative Marketing Association. In 1910 she married polo-playing Sculptor Charles Carey Rumsey, who was killed twelve years later in an automobile accident. An early & generous supporter of Roosevelt, she became, with her good friend Frances Perkins, one of the important women in his New Deal...
...likeness of John Harvard having been preserved, the statue by Daniel C. French in the College Yard and the stained glass portrait at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, are both ideal representations. Sherman Hoar of the Class of 1882 posed for the sculptor but the statue does not pretend to be a likeness of Hoar...
...sooner was King Alexander murdered than all the people of Yugoslavia began wondering who would be chosen to execute the official memorial to him. Sculptor Mestrovic will do a heroic statue for the family tomb at Oplenatz. Painter Vanka has already finished the portrait...
...first line of the inscription is the statement that the statue is a likeness of John Harvard. This is a myth, for since Daniel Chester French, the sculptor, could find no portrait of Harvard, he modeled the figure after Sherman Hoar '82, and gave his figure an idealized head, representing only his concept of the scholarly preacher...
Congress stood Sculptor Greenough's Washington as long as it could, then moved it out on the Capitol lawn and voted $5,000 more to put a shed over it. A few years later came another appropriation ($1,000) to take the shed down and put up a fence. The last artistic attack on the long-suffering taxpayers occurred in 1908 when, for $5,000 more, George Washington was bundled off to the obscure chapel of the Smithsonian Institution where Pressman Othmann discovered him last week...