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Bust of Winston Churchhill, Leo Cherne 1963

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Bust of Winston Churchhill signed Leo Cherne 1963, cast in plaster with bronze finish.
Size: 3.75" x 3.75" x 12"
Weight: 7lbs 2oz
Condition: small chip on eyebrow and minor flaking on bottom of bottom lip.

Leo Cherne(September 8, 1912, Bronx, New York—January 12, 1999) was an American economist, public servant and commentator. He graduated from New York Law School in 1935.
His career spanned more than fifty years. Cherne, an economist and attorney, was a public policy expert who became a principal co-anchor of ABC-TV's All-Star News, the first hour-long prime time nightly network news broadcast, in the 1952-53 television season. While not a ratings success against entertainment programs on NBC and CBS, All-Star News is credited as pointing the way toward the format later used by long-form local news broadcasts in cities across America in the 1960s and beyond, and by CNN and other national and international cable news networks since 1980. Cherne later gained prominence in the private sector as Executive Director of the Research Institute of America, founded to translate complex government legislation for the businessman; Chairman of the Executive Committee of Freedom House, established to advance the struggle for freedom at home and abroad; and Chairman of the International Rescue Committee, formed to assist democratic leaders, scholars, and others to escape Fascism, Communism, and other forms of totalitarianism. He maintained these positions for the greater part of his career.
Cherne also served many Presidents, from Roosevelt to Bush, in a variety of capacities, including memberships on the U.S. Select Committee for Western Hemisphere Immigration and the U.S. Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs, as well as his activities on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) and the Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB). He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Ronald Reagan in 1984.
Cherne was famously quoted stating "The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. The marriage of the two is a force beyond calculation." This sentiment is echoed by most IT scholars.

Condition: small chip on eyebrow and minor flaking on bottom of bottom lip.

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