Word: auge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...considerably riled by the quote marks around the word Captain in your story on the oyster boats [TIME, Aug...
...Cleveland, there was a wake. After 113 days of squatting on a platform above his confectionery store "until the Indians got back in first place," Exhibitionist Charley Lupica (TIME, Aug. 19) was invited down last week by Bill Veeck, exhibitionist president of the Cleveland baseball club. In the mathematics of the 1949 pennant race, the Indians, World Series winners a year ago, were dead. To mourn the sad occasion, Veeck, crowned with a silk hat but still without a tie (he never wears one), drove a horse-drawn hearse into Municipal Stadium with all the Indians trailing along as pallbearers...
Spanish Philosopher José Ortega y Gasset had started something, it seemed, when he descibed the evolution of painting as a steady march from external reality through the subjective to the "intrasubjective" (TIME, Aug. 22). Last week, twelve U.S. modernists had picked up Ortega's word, opened an "intrasubjective" show in Manhattan...
...Ardmore, Pa., for the first time in the history of the national women's amateur golf championship, a 15-year-old girl stroked her way into the semifinals. Comely Marlene Bauer of Los Angeles, winner of the National Girl's Championship last month (TIME, Aug. 29), had oldtimers recalling the cool poise of the youthful Bobby Jones (who played in his first Nationals at 14). But after getting to the semifinal round, Marlene's firm grip slipped; on the second hole, she took seven strokes in her match with Dorothy Kielty, a fellow Californian from Long Beach...
Madame Bovary. Jennifer Jones in a faithful portrayal of Flaubert's unfaithful French provincial lady (TIME, Aug...