Word: curtise
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An old paddle steamer with high, spindly funnels lies composedly beached in a red desert. Saplings enclose it; years ago the river vanished. From a circus cage on wheels, a bearded paterfamilias glowers, serenaded by a man in tails (on cornet), a bus boy (French horn), a girl in evening...
Despite his chosen isolation in the West-where he retreated after some years as a peripatetic museum curator, a stint at Harvard's art history school and service as an art consultant with the OSS in Washington during World War II-Curtis has his international admirers. John Russell, art...
APRIL 1970: West German Ambassador Count Karl von Spreti was murdered when the Guatemalan government refused to meet the guerrillas' demand for the release of 22 political prisoners. Curtis C. Cutter, U.S. consul in Porto Alegre, Brazil, was wounded in the shoulder but escaped kidnaping by gunning his car...
Y.M.C.A. Support. So, too, did some of the white world. In 1967, the Office of Economic Opportunity financed a job-training program for both Blackstone Rangers and Devil's Disciples. The Kettering Foundation gave $50,000 for legal expenses for inner-city youths. A chapter of the Vice Lords...
Even more surprising was the defection of the Rev. Curtis Burrell, formerly one of the gangs' staunchest allies. Burrell ran afoul of the Stones when he decided they were not acting for the good of the community and fired several of them from the K.O.C.O. staff last month. He...