Word: artes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scarcely a prison in the world where inmates do not gamble on the sly. But at Nevada's prison, gambling-just as in Reno and Las Vegas-is strictly legal. The reason, say prison officials, is based on realism. "I don't approve of gambling personally," says Art Bernard, who was Nevada State Prison warden until last spring. "But I am a great believer in facing facts. Making it legitimate for the prisoners gives you a control over it that you wouldn't have otherwise. It gives them something to do; if they have to walk...
...sports the languidly aristocratic look and the offhandedly arrogant air of a lordly old Tory of the style of Wellington and Disraeli. But behind the elaborately careless Edwardian manner that provokes both cheers and jeers for "Supermac" and "Macwonder," Harold Macmillan maintains a superbly efficient mastery of the political art of the practical. For all his proud Tory brows and mustache, Macmillan possesses an agile intelligence and free-ranging historical imagination that have enabled him to adjust cheerfully to the limits of Britain's present-day power, and to work to make his country the "senior junior partner...
What happened then? Enright's onetime pressagent, Art Franklin, told the story. "It was just automatically assumed by everyone that Herb Stempel was a raving lunatic," said Franklin. Even so NBC was "terrified," and "kept their hands as clean as possible by kicking it under the carpet." At that time (spring 1957) little more than a simple denial from Producer Enright was enough for NBC to announce that its own "investigation had proved Stempel's charges to be utterly baseless and untrue." But P.R. Man Franklin was not so sure of the truthfulness of his client...
Berenson's kind of sacrifice required a lot of money. It meant extensive travel to look at art: it meant building an art library of close to 50,000 volumes together with a now priceless art collection. It required many servants, researchers, a Tuscan villa with a vast formal garden in which to "taste the air." Hearing that he had his watch warmed to body temperature by the butler every morning before he strapped it on his wrist, impatient folk inclined to dismiss Berenson as a lucky hedonist. But he was really an ascetic in reverse who worked untiringly...
This time it was going to be different, Dudley thought as he walked across the Weeks Footbridge with his roommate. I know the fine art of mixing at mixers, he repeated to himself. He bid his roommate goodbye and thanked him for walking him across the bridge. Dudley always had an uneasy feeling going over that bridge alone at night; but his roommate was a big guy, played House football. Yessir, thought Dudley, after that Weeks Bridge, it's no sweat...