Word: emanuel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elderly man slipped quietly into the city's artists' quarter and took over an empty studio. He wore the artist's standard beret and velvet jacket, filled his room with paints, brushes, canvas and easel. But the man was no artist. He was Guglielmo Emanuel, Rome correspondent of Milan's Corriere della Sera, and one of Italy's most renowned anti-fascist journalists. For years he had been in trouble with Mussolini's police; now with the Germans in power, they were looking for him again. Emanuel decided it was time for a disguise...
...Milan last week, courtly Guglielmo Emanuel celebrated his 74th birthday by holding his first art show. On the gallery walls were 49 delicately-colored scenes of Italy and Southern France that would have done a professional credit: airy, back-lighted town vistas, views of Venice and the Riviera, mountain terraces dipping into lush valleys, richly colored flower markets flooded with sunlight. The critics cheered Emanuel's taste, finesse and remarkable craftsmanship. Said one: "He really has the painter...
Serious art was the farthest thing from Emanuel's mind when he took up the brush in 1943. At first, he toyed with the idea of merely smearing abstract designs on the canvas. "I said to myself, 'the police don't understand anything about art, and it won't matter if I just paint stripes or circles.' " But he found himself copying a crystal candlestick and a blue porcelain vase which he saw in his studio. "Much to my surprise," he says, "something decent actually turned up." Emanuel grew a husky white beard to complete...
...sense of deep separation from the rest of U.S. life which, they believe, long characterized the Jewish community. But recent years have seen a kind of reform of Reform-a movement away from a liberalism which was sometimes hardly distinguishable from Unitarianism. At last week's convention, Dr. Emanuel Gamoran, director of the Commission on Jewish Education, called for a deeper recognition of the Jewish past...
...became President, anticipating that Harry Truman would be unable or unwilling to reach a decision in his last days as President. Dwight Eisenhower's answer all but closed the door of doom on the Rosenbergs. There were still a few desperate delaying actions to be made-and Lawyer Emanuel Bloch might succeed in winning more borrowed time-but the only real opportunity of escape lay with the Rosenbergs themselves. If they broke their long silence-if they confessed the secrets of their spy ring-then the President might consider a new appeal for clemency...