President Coolidge sat very still. He was looking at the face of an elderly English gentleman with large, bushy eyebrows. The eyes beneath these eyebrows looked intently back at Mr. Coolidge. After many minutes of motionless sitting, the President gave place to Mrs. Coolidge. She in turn sat very still, looked at the eyebrows, was looked at by the eyes. Eventually the results of these sittings, these lockings, will be portraits of President and Mrs. Coolidge, exhibited in the new building of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, Manhattan. The owner of the eyebrows was Frank O. Salisbury, "painter laureate...
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