Word: browned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...train had just killed six people, a ramshackle automobile flying a tattered red Rising Sun flag drew up with a screech of brakes. Like the celebrated clown act in the Ringling Bros, circus, nearly a dozen reporters and photographers poured out of the jampacked car. After hastily pitching a brown tent by the roadside as a temporary city room, the journalistic task force spread out to hunt for clues. Asahi (Rising Sun), the Far East's biggest and best newspaper, was out to crack the crime...
...marble slabs were used as secondhand building stones to line a rough, crude tomb in the suburbs of Athens. This insult to the carving saved it. When Greek archeologists dug them up, the two slabs could be fitted together almost as good as new. Even some of the brown paint on the slave's face and arms is still in place...
...Riviera, where he was lounging about in soiled white shorts, with his barrel chest a magnificent brown, Picasso left off playing with his son long enough to deny that he was being domesticated. Grumbled Papa Picasso: "My painting hasn't changed, my subjects haven't changed. If I happen to paint a little girl it is because she happens to be at hand. If a piece of wood were at hand I would paint...
With a chest thump and ape warble, Tarzan will start vine-swinging from the lianas for the 26th time next week. In Tarzan and the Slave Girl, Producer Sol Lesser is giving the tenth and current Tarzan (Lex Barker) a new mate-probably Vanessa Brown. But the script will hold close to the tried & true line that has enchanted three decades of romantics and grossed around $3,000,000 a picture. Tarzan has been the most durable and successful series in movie history...
Indian Summer. In Menlo Park, Calif., Charles E. Brown, 82, had to call off his 62nd wedding-anniversary party when he came down with mumps...