Word: fame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shoe and bootmaking is a Limmer family tradition. Both Peter's and his wife's fathers were shoemakers, and the present family boasts innumerable shoemaking uncles. He was one of twelve brothers and two unfortunate sisters. Unfortunate, because they cost the family 200 marks and considerable fame...
...seven-foot marble statue of Mormon Brigham Young lay crated in Washington awaiting a decision on just where it would be set up in the Capitol's "Hall of Fame." Sculptor Mahonri M. Young, a grandson* of the Mormon leader, wanted it to go in a small alcove just off the main rotunda. Utah sponsors wanted it in the rotunda. But, objected the sculptor, the only spot available there is impossible: the statue would be right off the entrance to the ladies' rest room...
Spade-bearded Ivan Mestrovic is a man who puts strong feelings into his sculpture (TIME, Aug. 30, 1948), and has plenty left over when he has laid aside his mallet. Last week Mestrovic received an urgent invitation to return to Yugoslavia, where he was born and made his fame. The invitation came through Fellow Sculptor Jo Davidson, who had recently completed a bust of Marshal Tito, and it was from the Dictator himself. "Tell Mestrovic," Tito had said, "not to be a fool. Tell him to come back." The expatriate sculptor's blunt reply: "Too many of my friends...
Today, the department of microbiology is the brightest spot on the Rutgers campus at New Brunswick, N. J., and its chairman, Dr. Selman Waksman, is one of the world's top microbiologists. He has won for his university not only fame but fortune. Streptomycin for a 60-day course of treatment costs $60 to $80. A dozen chemical companies are turning out the new wonder drug, and for every gram (1/28 of an ounce) sold, Rutgers gets 2?. By last week, the university's harvest of pennies had reached more than...
Princeton men who don't like the food in Commons can get even by boycotting Howard Johnson's roadside restaurants of 28 flavor fame. They have been eating his meals at the College's main dining halls since...