Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bedford whaler, the John Howland, spotted the five starving Japanese who had given up all hope after nearly seven months. Having taken the castaways aboard, Captain William H. Whitfield went right on chasing whales. To Manjiro, whose usual catch was bass, whaling was a mighty experience. Quick, curious and alert, the young lad picked up English rapidly, learned the whaler's tasks and pitched in with a will. Captain Whitfield, a widower, took such a fancy to him that he brought him home (Fairhaven, Mass.), changed his name to John Mung, put him in school and took...
...movie serve admirably to heighten the adventure and the atmosphere. The new color style, a blend of black and white with technicolor--is an ideal compromise between the prosaic and the lush. The musical score is appropriate. And Huston controls the dramatic pace effectively, starting slowly in the New Bedford scenes, mixing in increasingly explicit predictions of doom, and constantly quickening the tempo until at the end, in the storm scene and the final fight with Moby Dick, the action grips not just the Pequod's crew but the audience as well...
...like Matisse and Gauguin. "Before I realized it, I was as wild as the rest," Zorach recalls. To his astonishment, he had four paintings accepted in the Paris Salon d'Automne of 1910. While in Paris he also met his artist wife, Marguerite Thompson, granddaughter of a New Bedford whaling captain. They returned to Manhattan just in time for each to hang a painting in the 1913 Armory Show that introduced the U.S. to modern...
...conscious of Jim Eastland's existence. In the Magnolia State itself, however, Eastland was born a power to be reckoned with. His maternal grandfather, Dr. Richmond Austin, came from one of the state's most blue-blooded families, and rode as a cavalry officer under General Nathan Bedford Forrest (later one of the founders of the Ku Klux Klan). His paternal grandfather not only made a pile out of a drugstore chain, but also had the foresight to buy, at $1 an acre, 600 acres of cotton land near the hamlet of Doddsville in the Mississippi Delta. Today...
MEREDITH W. FRY (native of Bedford, Ind.) Jefferson City...