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Copley never went back to America: he became a highly successful member of the Royal Academy. Little Susannah, who sits in her grandfather's lap, was to die of scarlet fever at the age of nine. John Singleton Copley Jr., shown embracing his mother, became Lord Chancellor of England. One of his sisters (at right, in the painting) devoted her life to him, dying a spinster at the age of 95. The other, Elizabeth, the determined little figure standing in the center, went back to America. She married a Bostonian, as did her daughter Martha, who, as Mrs. Charles...
...greatest difficulty that the Avant Garde greeting card company has had to face is unique: since only minors were involved, no one could sign a valid contract. But John Singleton, a Cambridge printer, and then other firms, were excited by the cards' commercial potentialities and sealed working agreements with the students. As if an undergraduate company hadn't individuality enough, they were now doing business on the honor system...
Died. Electra Havemeyer Webb, 72, founder of the Webb Gallery of American Art (TIME, Aug. 15) in Shelburne, Vt., which houses 200 American masterworks (John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer) in a colonial-furnished museum reached by a covered bridge; of a brain hemorrhage; in Burlington. Mrs. Webb was the daughter of the Henry O. Havemeyers, who were bemused by their daughter's interest in Americana, since they themselves had amassed a multimillion-dollar collection of European masters...
...highest in the nation. Even so, rabid Yale alumni across the country were able to sell a flock of bright and burly boys on the idea of going to New Haven. The Chicago area alone-long a source of raw material for football foundries-supplied six starters, including Quarterback Singleton (6 ft., 200 Ibs.), Captain Pyle (6 ft. 3 in., 233 lbs.), and Center Hardy Will (5 ft. 11 in., 195 Ibs.). All three were recruited from New Trier High School in Winnetka...
...attack. With Pro Prospects Pyle and Guard Benny Balme (6 ft. 1 in., 215 Ibs.) blocking up front, Yale had the brute strength to open holes for the driving runs of Fullback Blanchard (6 ft. 2 in., 205 Ibs.). When the defense bunched to stop Blanchard, Quarterback Singleton would run the option inside end-hitting like a fullback himself-or roll out to pass...