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...scholarly, war-impoverished Tennessee slaveholder, stringy, hard-jawed Hatton Sumners, 63, is a self-taught authority on law and history (specialty: the 13th Century). When he rises to speak, the House hushes. On an automobile ride in 1937 with the late Majority Leader Joe Robinson, Speaker Bankhead, Majority Leader Sam Rayburn and Senator Ashurst, he announced the first serious opposition to President Roosevelt's plan for altering the Supreme Court by saying: "Boys, here's where I cash in." He would not receive the Court bill in his committee and forced the Senate to consider it first...
Died. Robert Hallowell, 52, self-taught U. S. artist who, with Walter Lippmann and Herbert Croly, was one of the founders of the New Republic in 1914; of a heart attack; on Staten Island...
...self-taught artist and international wanderer, friend of Grosz in Berlin in the middle '20s, von Ripper resisted Nazi beatings so well that the late Austrian Government was finally able to rescue him. Elaborately Freudian and symbolic, his etchings are related in texture and technique as closely to Goya as to Contemporaries Grosz and Max Ernst. One of them is of the Man of the Year (see cover}. Artist von Ripper, an "Enemy of the State" in Germany, considers his work his answer to a Gestapo-Commissioner who warned him to keep his mouth shut...
...autumn (TIME, Oct. 25), showing bowed, blackrobed, firmly painted figures before an open grave, against a dull rainscape. There was no outstanding piece of sculpture like Carl Hallsthammar's Venus in Red Cherry of last year, but the exhibition introduced the work of a promising, 23-year-old, self-taught Syrian of New Orleans, Leon Koury, with a competent Negro figure, Compress Worker...
...Ears Are Bent - strip-tease artists, fan dancers, baseball players - chatter away with the utmost seriousness on subjects of whose absurdity they are unaware, or perform the unthinkingly idiotic gestures of people who think they are alone. One of Mitchell's unselfconscious heroes was Mr. Holton, self-taught authority on mass insanity, who went crazy. Mr. Holton's wife picked up every crazy fad that came along. One night she woke him up and said "Knock, knock." "I am too old for that sort of by-play," Mr. Holton complained to Mitchell. "I do not wear long pants...