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...Whistler-A boy in Vermont, accustomed to working alone, was so prone to whistling, that, as soon as he was by himself, he un- consciously commenced. When asleep, the muscles of his mouth, chest, and lungs were so completely concatenated in the association, he whistled with astonishing shrillness. A pale countenance, loss of appetite, and almost total prostration of strength, convinced his mother it would end in death, if not speedily overcome, which was accomplished by placing him in the society of another boy, who had orders to give him a blow as soon as he began to whistle...
...Roman" and "Iron Duke" of U. S. sport, longtime member of New York State's Athletic Commission; of cancer of the prostate gland; at Purchase, N. Y. As world's Graeco-Roman wrestling champion in the 1880's, he successfully defended his title against Clarence Whistler, "The Kansas Demon," in three historic draw matches. In the third Muldoon broke Whistler's collarbone. In 1881 Muldoon discovered John L. Sullivan, arranged his first New York boxing match at Harry Hill's. Eight years later, when Sullivan was world's champion, Muldoon trained...
...temporary building at the Fair proper enabled its sponsors to borrow $75,000,000 worth of paintings and sculpture. All the borrowed pictures hanging last week had come from U. S. museums (31) and private collections (more than 200). Yet to come was the one exception: James McNeill Whistler's famed Portrait of My Mother, valued at $1,000,000, France's one contribution to the Fair, lent by the Louvre through Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. When it arrives in Chicago next week, U. S. troops will escort it from Union Station to the Institute...
...Rodriguez de Silva y Velasquez' Isabella, First Queen of Philip IV of Spain from Philanthropist Max Epstein of Chicago; Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn's Aristotle with the Bust of Homer from Duveen Bros.; Gustave Courbet's La Toilette de, la Mariée from Smith College: Whistler's Portrait of My Mother; Auguste Renoir's The Canoeists' Breakfast from Phillips Memorial Gallery (Washington. D. C.); George Seurat's Un Dimanche à la Grande Jatte from the Art Institute...