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Perennially brickbatted Sculptor Epstein got another lump on the head-this time from the famed Tate Gallery (which owns six of his sculptures). The gallery trustees-all except Sculptor Henry Moore -voted to refuse a sculpture which had been offered as a gift: Epstein's Lucifer, which he considers one of his major works. "The trustees," Sculptor Epstein thereupon told the world, "are a lot of nincompoops-except Moore." He explained further: "There have always been some people who do nothing and are against those...
...whether or not creative artists have a rightful place on the Faculty. Stegner occupied, while he was here, one of the Briggs-Copeland instructor must go elsewhere after his appointment is completed. As a result, other colleges have represented on their faculties such outstanding men of letters as Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, and W. H. Auden, while Harvard undergraduates must get along on a starvation diet of composition courses and depend for the inspiration and advice such men could offer on the Morris Gray Fund guest lectures. Although it would be possible for Harvard to obtain one or more...
...Last Look. Sergeant Karl Zimmerli, another member of the Swiss rescue party, described grey-haired Margaret Tate, wife of a U.S. general, and engineer George Harvey as "heroes" of the ordeal. Said Zimmerli: "Mrs. Tate is a very brave woman. She stayed cool even when we crossed crevasses which were hundreds of feet deep. Several times she said: 'Pilot is my darling.' I didn't understand until they told me the pilot is her son. That is probably the reason too why she asked me to turn the sledge [towards] the crashed plane. She told...
...following day, Swiss pilots flying ski-equipped Fieseler Storch planes took off survivors in nine breathtaking shuttle trips. None of the passengers had been badly hurt. Captain Ralph Tate Jr., pilot of the plane, felt so good at the rescue depot that he spurned an ambulance, jauntily vaulted a fence to the waiting hospital train. To eleven-year-old Alice McMahon, it had been great good fun living off snow and chocolate bars for five days. She came off the rescue plane vigorously chewing gum, told reporters: "I had a fine time...
...that Tory headquarters announce a policy that "will prove attractive to youth." Said one delegate: "We want a restatement of the Conservative Party's faith." A sympathetic echo came from Tory farmers and retired business people meeting in Worcester on the edge of Wales. In London Mrs. Mavis Tate, an ex-M.P., said: "What we want is a clearly defined policy...