Word: dreamers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day the Nazis invaded The Netherlands. It was a weird, unreal world in which Audrey, the gay-grave dreamer of fairy tales, found herself: a world where terror lurked in every shadow and neighbors could disappear overnight. Audrey's own uncle, a prominent lawyer in Arnhem, was one of the first victims of Nazi "discipline." He was shot as one of six hostages in retaliation for a plot to blow up a German train. Audrey's cousin, an adjutant at the royal court, was also executed...
Painting the Dawn. As the years lengthened, Rouault's palette brightened. A precarious-seeming serenity is now his prevailing mood. Some of his most recent figures, such as The Dreamer (page 69), even dare the beginnings of a smile. "I have spent my life painting twilights," Rouault says, "so I ought to have the right now to paint the dawn...
Made-to-Order Team. This is the first commercial building venture outside New York for the Uris brothers, Percy, 53, and Harold, 47, who function like a made-to-order team. Percy is the dynamo and dreamer of the combination. An economics major at Columbia, where he graduated in 1920, he handles the company's financing and mortgaging arrangements. Harold, a civil-engineering graduate of Cornell in 1925, is the detail man and boss of construction. Percy is voluble and high-strung; Harold is stolid and softspoken. Says he: "Percy makes the money and I spend...
...Bathtub Dreamer. "Bob" LeTourneau, who does not drink or smoke and flies some 200,000 miles a year in his private planes, spreading the Lord's word, combines his evangelism with hard-headed business sense. Born in Richford, Vt., he was still a boy when his family moved to the West Coast. He quit school after the seventh grade, made his first money selling pictures of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. He learned mechanics as a grease monkey in a garage, later set up his own earth-moving and contracting business at Stockton, Calif, on a loan...
...Police issued two appeals to the public to turn back the money. The sandwich man and two others turned up, each with a thousand-franc note. The rest of the beneficiaries apparently agreed with Dreamer Formartin that their need was greater than that of Messrs. A. Freyman...