Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through all the messy court cases that kept her name on U.S. front pages in the '20s and '30s,* Aimee's 35,000 followers remained fiercely loyal to their thrice-married leader. Even after her death in 1944, the church she founded, with its halfmoon-shaped, neo-Romanesque Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, continued to grow...
...Married. All from Liverpool, all in their early 20s, they come from similar working-class backgrounds. George Harrison's father is a bus driver. Paul McCartney's sells cotton. Ringo Starr, the somewhat corvine drummer, is the son of a house painter. He is called Ringo because he wears as many as six rings on his fingers. His real name is Richard Starkey...
Miracle from a Frog's Leg. The basic principle of isometric exercise was discovered back in the '20s, when scientists found that when one leg of a frog was tied down over a period of time, it grew significantly stronger than the leg left free. But it was not until 1953 that two German doctors worked out the implications of this experiment and applied them to the human body...
Paley owns 103 paintings at the moment, of which about 40 are major works. They are mainly by Postimpressionists, and he, with an instinct for the durable, bought most of them cheaply in the '20s and '30s. He has a Derain that he found on the floor of the artist's studio in Paris, covered with dust. Among his Matisses is one that Matisse originally refused to part with, but, says Paley, "I wheedled...
Leveling on Ford. After shaping up G.M., Sloan in the mid-'20s leveled his sights on his bitter and then bigger rival, Ford. Old Henry Ford's policy was to stick with one model, in one color, in one price bracket-forever, if possible. Sloan countered with a strategy of change and diversity that aimed at the auto buyers' varying tastes and pocketbooks and their desire for change. He broadened G.M.'s line by creating the medium-priced Pontiac and by extending Chevrolet further into the low-priced field. He then inaugurated the most unbeatable auto...