Word: dove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shivering under the biting wind that whistled through Bloemfontein's sports stadium, more than 30,000 South Africans watched the husky, white-haired man with two fresh scars on his face and neck hold aloft a small white dove. "This is our messenger of good will," he cried. But, as the crowd sat in stunned silence, the bird fell to earth with a small, feathery thud, declining to fly. With such inauspicious symbolism did South Africa's Prime Minister Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd return last week to public life, two months after an assassin's attempt...
...died on the French Riviera in 1955, genial Paul Roux had no bank account and less than $100 in cash, but he was still able to leave behind a fortune. "This bouquet, this Colombe d'Or," he wrote to his son Francis, "I leave to you." The Golden Dove was his hotel-restaurant in tiny Saint-Paul-de-Vence-a restaurant like no other in the world...
...earliest days as the patron in the 1920s, Roux had found himself fascinated by the customers he got. They were an impassioned, talkative lot who came all the way from Paris to paint in the warm sunshine of Saint-Paul-de-Vence. Soutine took a room at the Golden Dove, and so did Braque, Bonnard, Léger and Utrillo. There was no end to the procession of great names who ate there. The artists seemed to like Roux, for they showered him with paintings, either as gifts or for a modest prix d'ami. As the years passed...
...still has his consolations: 4,000 other canvases that his father had only briefly hung. And his father's old friends are being more than sympathetic. Upon reading of the robbery, Bernard Buffet promptly sent Roux a painting of a ram's head to replace the Golden Dove's stolen fish...
Running Bear (Johnny Preston; Mercury). There was an Indian brave named Running Bear who loved an Indian maid named Little White Dove but was separated from her by a raging river. He plunged in, and she plunged in, and "The raging river pulled them down/ Now they'll always be together/ In that happy huntin' ground." The arrangement lags and lurches, but it has carried Singer Preston into his own happy hunting ground on the pop charts...