Word: dalmatians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dalmatian-born in 342, St. Jerome became a man of letters (Greek and Latin) in Rome, took ship for Antioch. There he dreamed that he was brought before the judgment seat of Christ and ordered to identify himself. He said that he was a Christian, but this was denied: "Thou liest. Thou art a Ciceronian, for where thy treasure is, there is thy heart also." Deeply troubled by the dream, Jerome re tired into the desert of Calchis for four long years of mys tic solitude. On his return, he learned Hebrew and then devoted the main energies...
Died. Artur Rodzinski, 64, master builder of symphony orchestras; of a heart ailment; in Boston. Born on Yugoslavia's Dalmatian coast, Rodzinski was the son of a Polish surgeon in the Austrian army. Holder of a doctorate in law from the University of Vienna, he preferred music, came to the U.S. in 1925 on the invitation of Leopold Stokowski. His talent for developing orchestras, which even exceeded his art as a conductor, brought prestigious results in Los Angeles, Cleveland and New York, where Rodzinski took over the listless Philharmonic in 1943. Considering himself hamstrung by management, he stormily quit...
...group troup took the Experimenters and some of their Yugoslav hosts through Macedonia to Lake Chrid, a resort area on the Albanian border; then along the Dalmatian coast on the Adriatic to Dubrounik...
...English Pekingese, Ch. Chik I'Sun of Caversham, and not remember that last year's winner was the toy poodle Ch. Wilber White Swan; for a toy to win twice in a row was unlikely. The cocky Airedale, Westhay Fiona of Harham, stumbled and broke gait. The Dalmatian, Ch. Roadcoach Roadster, defied show-ring manners with the curving droop of its tail. But through all the long interlude, the long-haired, silver-blue Afghan stayed cool and aloof, a champion without pause...
Botch Dog. In Pawtucket, R.I., Eugene J. Moreau's Dalmatian neglected to bark when a fire broke out late at night in the kitchen closet, got himself deeper in the doghouse by biting the first fireman to show...