Word: cecilia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, professor of Astronomy, will be the first woman to occupy an open endowed chair at the University. Other appointments announced yesterday include two new members of the Board of Preachers to replace Frederick May Eliot, deceased, and Sidney Lovett, who resigned recently...
Born. To Gregory Peck, 42, cinemactor, and Veronique Passani Peck, 26, onetime French reporter: a first daughter, second child (he has three sons by a previous marriage); in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Cecilia. Weight...
...ranks of American painters include only two women-Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keeffe [TIME, Sept. 9]." How about Cecilia Beaux...
...humidity at night falls as low as 30%. With his gallery's humidifiers not yet in action. McEwen found that the dangerously low humidity was stretching the priceless canvases so taut that "they were ready to explode." To fight the dry air, McEwen and his Rhodesian sculptress wife, Cecilia, night after night dashed between their .flat and the gallery to drape damp towels over the frames of the stretching masterpieces. When asked about the effect of this do-it-yourself humidifying on the canvases, McEwen had a ready answer: "Emergencies demand drastic measures. That was all we could...
Schmidt chose a varied program wholly devoted to intriguing and rather out-of-the-way items. The opening "Hail, bright Cecilia," by Purcell, had the proper majesty, though there was a bit of trouble with a few of the tricky entrances. Brahms' brooding and richly colored Song of the Fates fared well, and again showed that Brahms has no superior in the handling of the choral medium...