Word: famous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...resemblance between John Tenniel's famous depiction of the Duchess in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Matsys' painting [TIME, Jan. 26] ... is undeniable, but Tenniel need not have seen the Matsys painting in order to have achieved his remarkable (and delightful) Duchess, as he may possibly have had access to a crayon caricature by Leonardo da Vinci which is in the collection at Windsor Castle...
...with invading princes and rival island chieftains for uncertain sovereignty over their huge (25,000 sq. mi.) island of blue mountains, green jungles and yellow sands. Then Ceylon became a British Crown colony, and in 1815 the Lion of Kandy was hauled down to make room for another, more famous member of his species...
...lives in a tiny Left-Bank hotel room littered with paints, clothes and cans of breakfast food. On a drawing board perched atop a suitcase on her bed, she paints the street scenes, bright with ladies in hoopskirts, which have made her locally famous. If one of her streets seems insufficiently cheerful, O'Brady adds a gaily colored balloon, an antique airplane or a fountain of fireworks overhead...
...played fullback for the Wolverines last fall. He weighs about 175. He generally got the ball on a direct pass from center, after the switch from T to single-wing, and then the fun began, with as many as five men eventually handling the ball as in the now-famous Rose Bowl end-around...
...testimoniale, prescuted by Lloyd Marcus '48, were in the form of two scrolls, designed by J. R. Rosen, famous as framer of University degrees. Unprecedented in PBH history, the awards came as a complete surprise to Brooks and Meltzer...