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...PAPPAS AGE 27 HOMETOWN Azalea, Ore. EVENT Decathlon THE DRAMA He has never been to the country and doesn't speak the language, but the Greeks count Pappas as one of their own. His great-grandfather left Athens for the U.S. in the early 1900s. THE COMPETITION He's the 2003 world champion but struggling to stay in top form. Roman Sebrle, a Czech, will be one of his top rivals in this two-day, 10-event contest that includes running, jumping and throwing...
Sometimes the ambitions of business heirs fly far beyond anything the founders imagined. When he was rolling penny cigars on a sidewalk in early-1900s Cuba, Teorifio Perez-Carillo could not have dreamed that someday his handiwork would be legendary among Hollywood stars and other aficionados. Or that his son Ernesto would buy the building behind his sidewalk stake and turn it into a tobacco warehouse. Or that his grandson, also named Ernesto, would take over the operation in Miami and become a multimillionaire...
...told TIME in 1948: "You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling." Certainly, many of his pictures have the poignancy of scenes glimpsed from a car or train. He never traveled very far, though. Apart from making the Paris trips expected of art students in the early 1900s, he mainly divided his time between New York City and New England, seeking out the unfashionable architecture and empty countryside that appealed to him. Having trained and worked as a commercial artist, Hopper had a methodical approach which may explain the deadpan air of his works. He didn't take...
...garners a mention in most guidebooks to the area (though tours are hard to come by, offered only twice a week to no more than 8 people.) The pristinely-tended gardens, hedges perfectly trimmed and grounds always swept clean, are considered one of the best surviving examples of early 1900s English and Italian gardens. (Berenson couldn’t decide if he wanted the Italian or English landscape style, so he made a bit of each...
Louis Albert traveled from Shostakovich, Russia, to Omaha, Neb., in the early 1900s at the age of 14. Life would be good in Omaha, assured an immigration officer in Galveston, Texas, where Louis initially landed. He was right. Ten years later, the newcomer had earned enough to get his sisters Celia, Dora and Riva to the States as well. Together they would form the roots of the Albert family tree in the nation's heartland--one with long branches that would eventually stretch from Los Angeles to Denver to Mendham...