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...pays its respects to Art with an exhibition to which members may bring their wives and daughters. Advertised as chef d'oeuvre of last week's exhibition was the lifesize, specifically nude bronzed plaster cast of Paul Robeson, Negro baritone, Shakespearean actor, onetime Rutgers football star, which Sculptor Antonio Salemme sent last summer to Philadelphia, which it shocked (TIME, June 30). For most of the summer it has been on view at the Brooklyn Museum...
Union League members viewed nude Paul Robeson with horror last week, rushed with complaints to portly, whitechinned Dr. George Frederick Kunz, gem expert of Tiffany & Co., chairman of the club's art committee, who summoned Sculptor Salemme...
...Sculptor Salemme dutifully applied a plaster figleaf as a poultice to outraged sensibilities. The members of the art committee viewed the amended Robeson, sadly shook their heads...
...months ago, when Mr. Coolidge was new to the field of belles lettres, Sculptor Borglum commissioned him to write a 500-word history of the U. S., which Sculptor Borglum would then carve beside the colossal figures of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt which he is hewing upon the austere face of Mount Rushmore, S. Dak. Discovering that the first hundred years were literally the hardest. Historian Coolidge took his time over the inscription, finally submitted a few paragraphs...
...Sculptor Borglum is an artist before he is a respecter of ex-Presidents. He edited the Coolidge text, added dates, omitted phrases, inserted a reference to Christianity. Historian Coolidge refused to accept the revised version, withdrew from the Memorial Association, refused last week to comment. Sculptor Borglum was less reticent...