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...Sculptor Epstein, not long after he settled in London, received his first big commission through the kind offices of Etcher Muirhead Bone: 18 colossal figures for the façade of the British Medical Association's new building in the Strand. For his theme he chose The Birth of Energy and his uncompromising, starkly modeled figures represented such ideas as Primal Energy (a nude man blowing the breath of life into an atom), The Brain (a figure holding a winged skull), Manliness (a figure whose physical attributes were very obvious). Preachers and conservative editors roared denunciation...
...boat is moored upon the strand, My face is to the sea. I hold the tiller in my hand And wait the tide that calls...
...Washington last week the Interstate Commerce Commission heard with apparent favor Chesapeake & Ohio Railway's plan to acquire direct control of the Erie and Nickel Plate to tighten two loose strands in the old Van Sweringen network. C. & O.'s past connections with another strand, Chicago & Eastern Illinois, meanwhile came under the pained scrutiny of Montana's Senator Wheeler and his committee investigating railroad finance. The evidence provided the Senator with his best illustration to date of how the late exceptional Brothers "Van" dummied their way through deal after deal to get what they wanted in spite...
...bring upon her, rusticated in southern France. She lives alone. Once she had a husband, who died shortly after their marriage. As close-mouthed about her personal life as she is loquacious about her system, she seldom refers to her widowhood and never to the significance of the nine-strand collar of pearls which for more than 30 years has been her only ornament. Dr. Mensendieck calls the dancing legs of the late Anna Pavlova monstrously disproportioned. Likewise she scorns Tennist Helen Wills Moody's strong right arm, and Max Schmeling's entire musculature. Says she: "Tennis...
Tray Race. In London, fruit porters each spring race around Covent Garden into the Strand with wicker baskets piled 12 ft. high on their cork-padded caps. Famed is the Paris tray race, in which waiters wearing long white aprons run around the outer boulevards. In the U. S. nothing on this order appeared until a year ago when Fisticuffer Jack Dempsey sponsored a waiters' tray race to ballyhoo his New York restaurant. Last week, the second Dempsey tray race made it clear that the pastime would be an annual custom. Rules, copied from the Paris race, specified that...