Word: cecilia
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...collection than the Holladays? Perhaps, but none that got their own museum. It is short even of major works by women whose historical significance has been admitted for decades. Its inaugural show, American Women Artists 1830-1930, consisted mainly of loans; but even so, except for some paintings by Cecilia Beaux, Romaine Brooks and, of course, O'Keeffe, it was a dull florilegium of derivative kitsch. Who would waste ten minutes on these sub-Sargent portraits, these mincing imitations of Childe Hassam, these genre scenes crawling with dimpled rosy brats, if they had not been painted by American women...
High Jump--1. Erin Sugrue, Harvard, 5-ft., 6-in.; 2. Kim Seminiano, Army, 5-ft., 6-in.; 3. Cecilia Chonicz, Princeton, 5-ft., 4 1/4-in...
...impossible." Said Hammer: "Anatoly, I'm accustomed to doing the impossible." Later, Dobrynin telephoned Hammer to say, "Permission granted." Hammer rushed to tell Goldfarb, who was in a hospital with multiple ailments, including failing eyesight, diabetes and a gangrenous leg. But Goldfarb refused to leave without his wife Cecilia. Told this by Hammer, Dobrynin said that she could emigrate...
Much of the credit for Danieli's success goes to the hands-on management style of Cecilia Danieli, who is equally comfortable discussing the fine art of steelmaking with her technicians or negotiating deals with customers. Says W.J. Robertshaw, spokesman for Davy McKee, a British builder of steel mills: "We tend to respect them very much as a power in the land. Danieli is a very resourceful Italian company...
...sense, Danieli was born to be a boss. The company was founded in 1914 by her grandfather Mario Danieli and his brother Timo, who made steel in a primitive furnace. As late as 1955, the firm had only 40 employees. It began to expand during the 1960s under Cecilia's father Luigi, who moved the company from steel production into steel-plant engineering and construction. Luigi had four daughters, but the only one interested in the firm was Cecilia, who started in 1965 as an assistant to her father. Now 72, Luigi has let Cecilia bring in a team...