Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stories the rescued men had to tell, of grim courage and almost intolerable hardships, were not pretty. Neither was the fact that the W. L. Steed was the 16th merchant ship (including nine oil tankers) sunk off the U.S. east coast since the U.S. went...
...William O. Douglas), an ex-hero (Charles Augustus Lindbergh), a college president (Robert M. Hutchins of the University of Chicago). Aliens registered too: Chinese with Japanese; Austrians, Spaniards, Arabians, Hindus, Javanese. The draft boards had to have on hand specialists to translate Chinese birthdays like K.S. 23, 1, 16 (16th day, 1st month, 23rd year of the Kuang Hsü period) into the Gregorian equivalent...
...American Legion commissioned him to design a stained-glass window for the Cedar Rapids Memorial Coliseum. He went to Munich. There, in the work of 15th-and 16th-Century Flemish and German primitives in the Munich museums, he found at last the infinitely scrupulous, polished and detailed kind of painting he had always wanted to do. He returned to Cedar Rapids with a new way of looking at things, started to paint Iowa with the meticulous care of a Memling in modern dress. Two years later American Gothic, exhibited at the Chicago Art Institute, created a furor, and Painter Wood...
...period from October 20th to February 16th. Prepared...
Paul Hindemith: Mathis der Maler (Matthias the Painter) (Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy; Victor; 6 sides). One of the most sinewy of contemporary scores, by a onetime German Kulturbolschewik now living in the U.S. This symphonic suite, taken from Hindemith's opera about 16th-Century Painter Matthias Grünewald, describes three sections of Matthias' great Isenheim Altarpiece: Angelic Concert, Entomb ment, Temptation of St. Anthony. Glow ingly played and recorded...