Word: carvers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...former Yale coxswain, George Alexander Carver who found himself forced to cry "this is ridiculous" after five strokes. Then the shell slid under. Carver had twice unsuccessfully piloted the Elis against a Harvard crew but never before did he lose under such ignominious circumstances. The opposing Cambridge shell also almost bubbled under into the choppy Thames...
...HERBERT CARVER...
...heels, Duvallon hastened from Rome to Paris and home again, won the race handily and lived happily ever after. A second version goes back only to the 18th Century, when Bessans' parish priest quarreled with the village woodcarver and forbade him to enter the church. For revenge, the carver whittled a devil carrying the priest in its arms. A passing tourist snapped up the statuette. "There's money in the devil!" cried the happy woodcarver, and set about teaching his sons and grandsons to "make Satan surge out of a pine branch...
Modern artists from Picasso to Jacob Epstein have found inspiration in carved African idols, masks and fetishes. Last week a London gallery was showing the works of bearded Ben Enwonwu, an African carver who reversed the process...
Bishop Shaw consistently advocates self-improvement and development for his race, rather than "the rough, wild way of pressure groups trying to stamp out anti-Negro activities ... A sufficient amount of real excellence-as has been achieved by Marian Anderson and Dr. Carver and Jackie Robinson-is the surest way." Above all, he believes that Negroes should observe the rule he himself has followed with such conspicuous success: take on responsibilities...