Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...words, by Critic Andre - Malraux, pinpoint one of the most important happenings in art history. Burgeoning now, it has been preparing for 500 years. Art reproduction dates back to the woodblock illustrations of the 15th century. In the 16th, the great Raphael was so impressed by the possibilities of copper engraving that he issued some prints from his own designs. By the end of the 19th, Currier & Ives had flooded the U.S. with a choice of 7,500 hand-colored lithographs ("Juvenile, Domestic, Love Scenes, Kittens and Puppies, Ladies Heads, Catholic Religious, Patriotic, Landscapes, Vessels, Comic, School Rewards . . . and Miscellaneous...
...publisher of Long Island's tabloid Newsday (circ. 209,677), the fastest-growing and the most profitable big daily paper started in the U.S. in the last 20 years. A child of the famed Patterson-McCormick publishing dynasty, she is, nevertheless, cut from different cloth than her late, copper-haired, copper-tongued aunt, Cissy Patterson, who, as boss of the Washington Times-Herald, once confessed: "The trouble with me is that I am a vindictive old shanty-Irish bitch...
...there. Then the dead - all who have lived by the sea and died in it - could have their own secure refuge, a place to pray." Duilio Marcante told some of his friends, and the idea raced through Genoa and far beyond. Hundreds of Italian athletes sent in bronze and copper trophies to be melted down for the statue. The Italian navy and merchant marine offered bronze scrap from Italian ships sunk in World War II, and from one poor woman came a single copper coin. Sculptor Guido Galletti, 61, labored for nearly a year to model and cast a figure...
...COPPER STRIKE, which idled 33,000 workers, may prompt Attorney General Herbert Brownell to crack down soon on the Communist-led International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers under the new anti-Communist...
...ailment; in Cleveland. Resourceful Tycoon Joyce bought the Glidden Varnish Co. in 1917, turned waste materials into byproducts and byproducts into big business; in 37 years he built Glidden from a $2,500,000-a-year company to one nearly 100 times that size, ranging the market from powdered copper to charcoal, from soybeans to sandwich spreads...