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Spring. In Shreveport, La., Lucille Cash, chased by her husband, cleared a seven-foot barbed-wire fence...
There was also his seven-foot, simian, pink alabaster Adam, sometimes referred to as "a biologist's nightmare" or "three tons of ugliness." An Australian gold miner bought Adam for $35,000. For like Epstein notoriety, Epstein prices have soared steadily upward. In each esthetic crisis Sculptor Epstein has remained cosmically bland...
...leader, in this queer obstacle race, was a big black fellow, knotty of muscle, sleek of thigh. He leaped a seven-foot wall, writhed easily hand-over-hand up a rope, scrambled over a log breastwork, pawed up one side of a big rope web and down the other, snaked through a culvert pipe and broad-jumped a trench...
After bagging 25 Jap planes, Squadron Leader Newkirk was awarded a D.S.C. by the British Government. To his family he wrote letters describing the flora and fauna of Burma; he told of killing a seven-foot cobra in the barracks...
...Justly famed for gaunt, incisive portrait heads, he has kept the public roaring at his huge, paleolithic figures, whose potent brutality has shocked the prissy, angered the academic and given him the biggest headlines of any contemporary artist. Last year Sculptor Epstein produced his latest shocker, a three-ton, seven-foot, simian statue of Adam in pinkish alabaster, whose bull-bold virility made pulpits seethe, strong men blush and the public flock to look (TIME, June 19 et seq.). Exhibited by an enterprising purchaser as a side show at the English summer resort of Blackpool, Adam grossed some...