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...wish it, because under the terms of her husband's will she would have forfeited her income. Henry Festing Jones was not "one Festing Jones," but a musician of some distinction and the author of Butler's biography-a first-class work that was given the James Tait Black prize for the best biography of its year. He also wrote two valuable books on Sicily. Butler took issue with Darwin on no trivial point of evolutionary dogma. He was the first to note that the Abbé Lamarck had long before defined the principle of evolution, and without...
...that sum a purchaser had his choice of such particular bargains as two fine nudes by Emil Ganso, a crowded Coney Island beach scene by Reginald Marsh, a languorous Siamese cat by Agnes Tait, a lithograph of wild horses by last year's PWA discovery, Frank Mechau Jr., a group of bulbous people looking at other strange fish in an aquarium window by Mabel Dwight, a fine winter landscape by Ernest Fiene...
...year ago (TIME, Dec. 14, 1931) Ferargil showed not only paintings and statues of cats, but cat prints, cat bookends, cat doorstops, cat ash trays, cat hooked rugs, cat footstools. Besides Paul Fiene's rather heraldic cat couchant, notable cats were those by William Zorach, Peggy Bacon. Agnes Tait, Tsugoharu Foujita, and a superb cat poster by the late great Théophile Steinlen...
...Brothers Granville had rebuilt so many crashes they were ready to build planes of their own. Zantford Granville was the designer, the four younger brothers craftsmen, mechanics. Their first product, the Gee-Bee Sportster, won the favor of Maude Tait Moriarity, woman racing pilot. She persuaded her father, James C. Tait, rich ice cream maker of Springfield, Mass., to back the Granvilles with a factory in Springfield...
Policeman. As a result of Mr. Seabury's police investigation, last week one member of the vice squad, Policeman Sydney D. Tait, was sentenced to from two and one-half to five years in Sing Sing for perjury...