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...before leaving for the Pacific, received several new attentions. At the University of New Mexico, he was given the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters; in Manhattan, Sculptor Jo Davidson completed his bust of Pyle; in Washington, Sculptor Max Kalish prepared to do a statue of Pyle for the Smithsonian Institution's Living Hall of Washington TIME...
Died. W. S. ("Dad") Lively, 88, pioneer tintypist, daguerrotypist and photographer whose works have long been exhibited in the Smithsonian Institution, builder of the world's onetime largest camera (11 by 6 by 5 ft.); in McMinnville. Tenn...
...project-The Living Hall of Washington-was sponsored by Willard Monroe Kiplinger, publisher of the businessmen's weekly tip sheet, the Kiplinger Washington Letter. The statues are one-third life size, cast in bronze. They have been given to Washington's venerable Smithsonian Institution for permanent public exhibition. Some other sitters: Henry Wallace, Harlan F. Stone, George Marshall, Harry Hopkins, Francis Biddle, Cordell Hull, Henry L. Stimson, Walter Lippmann, John L. Lewis, Donald Nelson. Says Sponsor Kiplinger: "The purpose is primarily historical . . . history is made by men. What did the men look like? How did they stand? What...
Last week the weary sculptor shuttled to Washington on one of his last missions for the Living Hall. With the aid of sleeping pills, he was regaining his composure. In his car were 18 two-foot bronze statues, ready for delivery to the Smithsonian. The heat of Washington during the summer months had all but melted him down. "But," said he, "I would have gone into my studio and worked in the nude if necessary, in the joy of doing the thing for posterity...
...over-awed hundreds of tourists. At its more spectacular moments, spectators break into applause. One woman, after watching for a few minutes, broke into tears and hysteria. Hardened volcanologists, by their own account, have come away dazed and with knees shaking. Said Dr. William F. Foshag of the Smithsonian Institution: "It is, I believe, just as spectacular as Vesuvius ever was, and in its more violent phases it is better...