Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Painter Braque was born 66 years ago and was brought up in Le Havre. His father, a house painter, encouraged the boy's attempts to draw, but his teachers at the local Ecole des Beaux Arts wondered why. A slow, deliberate student, Braque accomplished nothing much until 1909, the year he teamed up with Picasso. The two became inseparable and for a while their work was almost indistinguishable. Together they invented "cubism"*-painting the visible world as if it were built of tiny blocks, and tumbling the blocks about at will...
...Cerebral Palsy, to act as a clearinghouse of information and to coordinate local organizations throughout the country. Said Leonard Goldenson, a vice president of Paramount Pictures, Inc. and president of the new foundation: "We are in the same position today that the infantile paralysis people were 15 years ago. The big problem, and a costly one, is in training . . . the public...
When she was a sophomore at Boston's Simmons College 23 years ago, Marie Hays woke up one morning with a "woolly, thick" feeling in her head. Her roommate, closing the windows, shouted at her to get up. But Marie could not hear a word. Overnight, she had become deaf...
Life with Daisy had its ups & downs, and on a Mardi Gras day just 30 years ago, Daisy threatened Satchmo with a razor as he stood at the corner of Liberty and Perdido Streets in full Zulu court regalia. Louis had had enough. He took a job playing with Fate Marable's band on the Mississippi River excursion boats Dixie Bell and Sidney. The pay was the unheard of (for Satchmo) sum of $55 a week. Says he: "I had so much money I just plain didn't know what to do with it." They played such...
...road, his schedule has long ago hardened into routine. After the show, which is usually over between 2 and 4 a.m., he goes out for a "snack," accompanied by Brown Sugar, his valet, "Doctor" Pugh, and whatever old friends and acquaintances want to join the party. The snack usually comes to a huge portion of ham & eggs, with potatoes, hot biscuits, hominy grits and coffee on the side. When complimented on his appetite, Satchmo replies: "Man, that's just a synopsis...