Word: davide
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republicans' political neophyte, retired Pretzel Manufacturer Arthur Toy McGonigle, 52, was doing his resolute best last week to retrieve the seat in Harrisburg that his party lost four years ago. The ride is uphill all the way. The Democratic candidate is Pittsburgh's four-term Mayor David Leo Lawrence, 69, one of the savviest and deftest political bosses in a state loaded with them. With 55 years in professional politics, and with Pittsburgh's gleaming new skyscrapers and superhighways as personal monuments, Dave Lawrence has a statewide reputation, strong support in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and the coal-mining...
...answer seemed to lie in the complicated formula of twelve-meter-boat design, basically the art of making improvements on existing models. U.S. Designer Olin Stephens improved on the best there was: Vim, a 19-year-old Stephens creation that swept the class back in 1939. Britain's David Boyd, in his first attempt at a twelve-meter, had to improve principally on Evaine, an old British boat that Vim trounced...
Johns Hopkins identified it 30 years ago as the Philistine city of Gath, home town of the giant Goliath who died when Slingshot Expert David sunk a stone in his forehead. The Israeli government named a nearby settlement Kiryat Gath (Gath-town), and settlers were proud of Gath's Biblical background, even though the city and Goliath had been anti-Israelite...
Dynamic Publisher Chateaubriand, 66, usually selects the art himself. An initiate of the Manhattan art world recently provided a view of Chato in action: "He stood before David's great portrait of Napoleon. Slowly his hand went up and rested in his vest. Then, quick as a flash, he whirled and said, 'If I had a revolver in my hand, this painting would no longer be yours...
...made the mold in the first place: furrow-browed, loquacious Arnold Gingrich, 54, founding editor and present publisher. Gingrich was just 29 in 1933 when he put together the first issue of the magazine with a pair of Chicago men's-wear trade publishers named David A. Smart and William H. Weintraub. For $200 a throw, he got short stories and articles from such Depression-struck authors as F. Scott Fitzgerald, e. e. cummings, John Dos Passes, Ezra Pound and Dashiell Hammett (one exception: Ernest Hemingway, who got $1,000 for The Snows of Kilimanjaro), served up the cheesecake...