Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Life in Akir has few refinements. Moshe Ben Yaacov Libby, a lean, swarthy immigrant from Yemen, lives with his family of five in a rusty, corrugated-iron shelter. They cook Arab style over an open clay oven and eat from a rough board supported by orange crates. Moshe's wife has found only occasional work picking oranges, and the 'family's stake is going for food. But Moshe, who spent three years in a British detention camp in Aden, plans to stay. He says: "The Arabs of Yemen hated us. There we had a three-story house...
Marcks spends his mornings sculpting in gypsum, which he likes better than clay because "it is so ugly-its brutal white color shows up the weaknesses." In the afternoons he goes home to the two-room apartment he shares with his wife, and rests. In the evenings he does playfully bizarre woodcuts which sell very well, help to finance the casting of more & more of his hard-to-sell gypsum figures in bronze...
...Alexandria (Va.) Gazette. When he died, the Gazette ran black, reversed-ruled borders on its columns and a poem which began: "What means the solemn dirge that strikes my ear?" "Light Horse Harry" Lee subscribed to the Gazette; his son Robert E. Lee, was reared on it, and Henry Clay wrote...
Married. Major General William Henry Draper Jr. (ret.), 54, investment banker and, until last month, economic adviser to General Lucius Clay; and Eunice Barzynski, 33, onetime WACaptain stationed at the U.S. embassy in Moscow and daughter of Brigadier General Joseph E. Barzynski (ret.); he for the second time; in Chicago...
...Although he is no kin to Henry Clay, he claims direct descent from John C. Calhoun...