Word: bowes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shift occurred last week without the faintest clank in the clockwork. Handsome, curly-haired Clark Clifford would bow out as special counsel to the President. And 40-year-old Charles Murphy, a poker-faced North Carolinian, would bow in. The White House was generally saddened at Clifford's departure. "It's a terrible loss," said a Truman intimate. "Charlie Murphy is a hard plugger but he lacks Clifford's flair and imagination. The rest of us will just have to try and supply Charlie with what he lacks." But otherwise the mechanism of Harry Truman...
...duchess declared that she was ready to bow out of her marriage-she would not want to be an obstacle to her husband. Furthermore, she said, "I should probably be snobbed by the nobility, or anything might happen, mightn...
...youth, Price was always making things. He learned early "from a guy just out of the pen" to weave horsehair watch chains. He made a fiddle and played at dances ("I really could bow!"). He sketched constantly, finally got to art school at 31, attended both night & day classes and won a gold medal. His instructors, he remembers, were reluctant even to discuss such subjects as "that modern Whistler." He made a success illustrating Wild West magazine stories, gave it up some 30 years ago to experiment with the freewheeling painting he does now. To live while he learned...