Word: famed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...emphasis on teaching teachers, Catholic University spread its spirit and methods to the education of almost every U.S. Catholic boy & girl. It was the first Catholic graduate school in the U.S., is still the only one authorized to teach canon law. And it has other claims to Catholic fame: it is the only Catholic college where all orders meet (the others are run by particular orders), and the only one subsidized by an annual hat-passing in every U.S. diocese (1947 take: more than $800,000). The' Pope authorized this collection in 1910 after a C.U. treasurer, a good...
...Good Old Days. In time, as his fame spread, he spoke to wide-eyed audiences from Nova Scotia to Los Angeles. As he became a showman, the Service sagas became Mike's own: he had actually witnessed the shooting of Dan. Last week, Klondike Mike, white-haired, but still straight as a pine, chatted about the good old days: "There aren't many oldtimers like me left any more . . . You know, I used to know old Dan McGrew. He was a big hulking fellow. He'd shoot a man at the drop of a hat. I remember...
Then frail, 65-year-old Composer Kodaly himself, looking like an El Greco with his sunken face and pointed white beard, took the podium to lead the orchestra and two choruses in the work which first won him fame. When it was over, Education Minister Gyula Oretetay presented the composer with a gold-leafed baton, and bull-necked Communist War Minister Peter Veres, a self-educated peasant who makes a point of never wearing a necktie on formal occasions, gave Kodály a wreath of fresh Hungarian wheat...
...show such a success? Explains Producer Louis G. Cowan, who achieved early fame & fortune with the Quiz Kids (TIME, July 15, 1940): "We've made the home audience an integral part of every show ... I conceive of this thing as being kind of a national Sunday game." How sure had he been? Says Cowan: "There are certain things that have the smell of a hit about them. This thing smelled like a hit right...
...Georges de la Tour, by then painter-in-ordinary to the king, died of pneumonia. His fame slipped away, his name was lost. His scattered paintings, only a few of them signed, and all of them showing the influence of the great Caravaggio, were attributed to Caravaggio's followers and other artists: the brothers Le Nain, Vermeer, the obscure 17th Century Antoine de Latour and the 18th Century Maurice Quentin de la Tour...