Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Artist Artzybasheff can retire on the merits of the Gromyko cover alone (TIME, Aug. 18). The significance of the worm, Veto, devouring the fruit of the olive branch, hit me right between the eyes...
...Views" for which Pannini became famous. Perhaps his the spaciousness and sparkle of Canaletto and Guardi, whose pictorial celebrations of declining Venice were equally in demand. But for nostalgic elegance Pannini's Roman Views rivaled anything Venice could produce. Without Pannini, wrote art critic Herman Voss, "a branch of art which is charming in itself would have been deprived of real perfection...
...Crimson's dinghy branch of its Charles River fleet last Sunday got out from under the thumb of the M. I. T. boatsmen when they stopped the Techmen's Fowle Trophy regatta streak at five wins and captured their first major dinghy victory since the spring...
Most of Bert's competitors shake their heads over such an outlay and predict a crippling overhead. But Bert and son are satisfied. Last year they netted $21,000; they hope that the new shop, charging regular prices, plus a branch to be opened at the new Los Angeles Municipal Airport, will boost 1947's profit...
...Respect. Shotton, a kind of Flatbush Cincinnatus, was called from his Florida farm last spring by Boss Branch Rickey to take charge of the Dodgers, after Manager Leo Durocher was suspended for a year (TIME, April 21). Shotton, semi-retired after a long career as outfielder, coach, manager and Brooklyn scout, scarcely knew his players' first names. At first he leaned heavily for advice on Stanky and Pitcher Hugh Casey, but now he runs the team by himself. Only once-after the Dodgers had lost four straight to the Cards in June-has Boss Rickey called Shotton into...