Word: 36th
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Wyeth's largest retrospective show to date, 223 works, is currently on view in Philadelphia's 161-year-old Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.* At the opening, he received the academy's gold medal, the 36th winner in the train of artists like Winslow Homer, Whistler and Sargent, recalled: "I was twelve years old when my father first brought me to the academy, and I . . ." Then he could say no more and sat down...
...mornings at his two-room apartment on the 36th floor of Manhattan's Essex House, Bing pauses over his porridge to read the London Daily Telegraph ("I can't lift the New York...
...first time in your life, you are wrong," the voice of the 36th President of the U.S. boomed through the amplifier in Kansas City's Muehlebach Hotel. "I'll never be too busy to pay my respects to a great American." The 33rd President, Harry Truman, need never have doubted that the phone call would come at his 82nd birthday party, for Lyndon Johnson holds no man living in greater esteem. "We've had 13 years to see the wisdom of your policies," said Johnson. Then he chuckled: "I have often thought you'd rather have...
...Wildcats are seeking a record fifth national championship under Rupp. Now in his 36th year as Kentucky's coach, Rupp was named College Basketball Coach of the Year by the Metropolitan Basketball Writers on Monday...
...fire was so heavy that for nearly a day in one paddy area the marines had to forget their hallowed rule that no body be left on the battlefield. As the marines fought toward the 36th's command post, they met machine-gun nests so tightly held that only flamethrowers could knock them out. But in the end, the 36th was decimated, with over 600 confirmed dead and perhaps as many again killed but uncounted, while allied casualties were "light...