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...Oliver Cromwell, the Great Fire of London in 1666, the revolt of Britain's American colonies. Nostradamus wrote: "The Chief of Fossan will have his throat cut. . . ." Said Columnist Walker's Astrologer: "Transpose fossan and you get OSSANF, the initials of Hitler's title, Oberster Sturm-Scharen-Anführer...
...Whitman, Salut an Monde (see cut), showed a new ease with planes and masses. Both made art critics wish for their enlargement to a less inti mate scale, and Wheelock's conception of Old Brooklynite Whitman stirred up local talk of monumentalizing the poet. In Manhattan, meanwhile. Justin Sturm, famed ex-Yale end ('21). ex-novelist. Westport, Conn.'s most popular sculptor, had an exhibition at the Karl Freund Galleries in which a wonderful lack of subconscious or other depth (see col. 2) appeared in several homey, well-finished studies...
...expense of bench & bar, gives a friendly, honest picture of Scottish life. That the story is as purely Scottish as haggis or brose is the doing of Playwright Tames Bridie, who a year ago took a Highland fling at Bruno Frank's German Sturm im Wasserglas, turned it into a Barrie-like play...
...Yalemen recall the 1921 Yale-Princeton football game in which Right End Justin Sturm stopped Princeton's Gilroy from getting away for a touchdown, helped his team win 13 to 7. Since then Justin Sturm has been a minor investigator for Montgomery Ward, a laborer in a glass factory, a gang foreman with a Chicago construction company. In 1926 Harper Bros, published his first novel (The Bad Samaritan). Last week Yalemen and others were able to see Justin Sturm's latest accomplishment-an exhibition of sculpture at Manhattan's Ferargil Galleries...
Competent and strong, Footballer Sturm's portrait heads revealed more finish than would be expected from a man who studied only a few weeks at Yale School of Fine Arts, served a brief apprenticeship in drawing under John Sloan. Most appealing piece was a solemn Kewpie-like head of a child called Marnie. That Mr. Sturm was already developing a fashionable following was indicated by some of his other subjects: Washington's Mrs. George Eustis, Long Island's Mrs. Ellwood Hendrick, Thomas Hitchcock Jr., Hope Williams, Gene Tunney. Strongest of the lot was his deeply creased portrait...