Word: 15th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...15th Century, Venice still drew on a great and profitable commerce with the East. Riding the crest of the Renaissance, industrious Venetian artists were turning out more paintings than the artists of any other city in Europe...
...eight months the city fathers had been rounding up the works of Giovanni Bellini, long-acknowledged master of 15th Century Venetian art, who once had bishops and nobles competing for his magnificent altarpieces and light-filled portraits, and whose works are now prized by the world's great museums. With 142 of his 180 extant paintings and drawings, collected from all over Europe and the U.S., this is the largest Bellini show ever held. The great polyptych of the church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo in Venice was painstakingly restored for the occasion...
Outraged, the secretaries drew up their own advice for bosses (sample: "Remember your secretary didn't hand you that 15th Scotch & soda the night before. Don't bring your hangover into the office. Maybe she had a bad night, too."). Snapped Delegate Augusta Hirst: "That compatible business applies to employers more than secretaries. The only syllable they recognize in the word is the second...
Roger Bannister, best young British miler since Jack Lovelock, is expected to run the fastest American mile of the season in Monday's 15th Oxford-Cambridge-Harvard-Yale track meet at the Stadium. The slim Oxford medical student did 4:11.1 at Princeton Saturday for one of the four first places the Englishmen picked up in losing to Princeton-Cornell, 9-4. The only faster mile which has been run in the United States this spring was a 4:10.1 by Wisconsin's Don Gehrmann in the Kansas Relays...
Died. Patrick Bowes-Lyon, 15th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, 64, eldest brother of Britain's Queen Elizabeth; after long illness; in Glamis Castle (legendary site of Shakespeare's Macbeth'), Angus, Scotland...