Word: ever
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Others ran what amounted to an airfreight service with private planes. Hoodlums entered the act, were even able to plunder government-willed collections. Artist Diego Rivera willed his fine collection to Mexico. It was pilfered before the government ever got it. Shortly after Anthropologist-Author Miguel Covarrubias died, some of the best pieces in his top-notch collection (also willed to Mexico) showed up first in a Texas gallery, then in a Manhattan gallery, which sold them to private collectors...
...husbands behind her at 21, collected her 2½-year-old son Shawn and a wicker suitcase of possessions, flew off to settle in Vermont. Snapped troubled Diane: "I just don't want to act any more. I find it destructive to me. I don't ever plan to return to Hollywood." Hoping otherwise, 20th Century-Fox, which has title to almost five more years of Diane's services, gave her an indefinite leave of absence...
...body has ever been the subject of such detailed and delicate detective work as the remains of the onetime fisherman, Simon, whom Jesus renamed Peter. For though, according to tradition and Roman Catholic doctrine, Peter was the first Bishop of Rome, from whom the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven have been handed down to the succession of Popes, no absolutely conclusive evidence of his presence in Rome has yet been found...
...flesh-times in Kansas" were a thing of the past. Wild Bill Hickok had been tamed by Writer-Promoter Ned Buntline, and was playing in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show ("Fear not, fair maid, you are safe at last with Wild Bill, who is ever ready to risk his life, and die if need be, in defense of helpless womanhood"). But the legend of the two-gun terror lingered on, and in 1902, when Owen Wister published The Virginian, the legend "came from the woodshed into the parlor...
...Movie. The western story was perhaps never meant to be told in words. Hollywood and the Wild West were made for each other, and it was love at first sight. The first real feature movie ever made, The Great Train Robbery (1903), was a western that introduced to the public a man who soon became the first of the great horse-opera heroes: Broncho Billy Anderson, a studio janitor who was drafted as a masked bandit. Hard on Broncho Billy's tracks came William S. Hart, a Minnesota farm boy who grew up among Indians. He rode a beautiful...