Word: drew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...troupe. Guy took it, but soon decided the future looked mighty meager. Says he: "I kept seeing all those old acrobats hanging around, and they always looked so sad." Guy, who had always liked to draw, spotted an easier act in the show: the artist on stage who drew pictures of customers or famous people on request. After a successful try at this, Guy decided to leave the stage, get another factory job and go to night classes at the Detroit School of Fine Arts...
...last week Springfield's Illinois State Fair drew the biggest crowd (225,000) in its history. The main attraction: the broad grin of Dwight Eisenhower, entirely surrounded by Republican politicians...
...your July 19 article, "Anchors Aweigh," and its picture of the U.S.S. Constitution, "Old Ironsides": I am proud to learn that Old Ironsides is being restored; proud because . . . James Cleghorn . . . who drew the plans for the ship was my great-greatgrandfather, and Colonel George Cleghorn, who sacrificed his fortune to help build her . . . was my great-great-granduncle. A plaque giving information about Colonel Cleghorn is located in the bow of Old Ironsides . . . I am 83 years of age . . . and proud...
...show-organized to benefit the Woodstock Artists Welfare Fund and its "Rest Room Building Fund"-drew contributions from dozens of citizens whose reputations, and prices, are sizable. The townspeople paid $25 a ticket to drink to its success and take home a Doris Lee lithograph of plump bathers in a black pool. Four winning ticket holders got a good deal more: their choice of any painting or sculpture in the place. The fortunate four picked Anton Refregier's crisp figure piece, Boy Drying Rope, a lush little still life by Sigmund Menkes, a thickly sketched townscape by Eugene Ludins...
...Guardia, succeeded him in Congress in 1934 on a Republican-City Fusion ticket. In his district, Vito was an indefatigable favordoer; in Washington, a slavish follower of the Communist Party line. Finally beaten by a 1950 Democratic-Republican-Liberal coalition, he still remained powerful and popular in his district, drew 20,000 mourners to his bier. His funeral was conducted by a Methodist minister, because the Roman Catholic Church refused him burial on the ground that he had not practiced his religion for many years...