Word: chalkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Genial Republican Thurston, 57, has left a trail of chalk dust behind him. A Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, he started out as a high-school science teacher in Manistee. worked his way up to be Michigan's superintendent of public instruction. A restless, bubbling executive, he ran his 8,000 schools and 42,000 teachers with amiable efficiency. But he was no ordinary bureaucrat: the best way to run a school, he insists, is to have an enlightened local citizenry do the job itself...
...banquet hall at the Statler Hotel, and stood smiling as Hail to the Chief was pumped out by the Marine Band. His voice was strong as he began speaking. But, during the final quarter of his address, pain made him clutch the rostrum with both hands, his face went chalk-white, sweat stood out on his forehead, and his voice almost failed. Fearful of fainting, he omitted whole sentences from his conclusion...
...boar, an old one and cunning, broke cover near the chalk pit and charged straight for the line of trees that hid its edge. After him clattered the whole hunt-King Richard the Lion Heart in the lead. At the rim of the chalk pit the boar pivoted and scuttled off to safety, while the beguiled lead hounds fell yelping into space...
Even his appearance contributes to the growing Beer legend. A mustache of heroic proportions soften a pleasantly booming voice. Clothed either in a brown, chalk-striped, business suit, or a black pin-striped number, many think that he looks like an intellectual mob-chief of the twenties...
...East zone police hauled away last week make a total of 36 known Griinewald sketches, and they show his unmistakable touch. While they are untitled, all three seem to be animated drawings of Biblical figures, swiftly brushed out in watercolor and filled in with shades of grey and white chalk. Says Berlin's Professor Will Grohmann, a top German art expert: "A sensational find...