Word: fisherisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meet intense competition expected from autos' Big Three in 1954-55. One possible bar to the merger: among Hudson's biggest stockholders is Queen Juliana of The Netherlands, who with other Dutch shareholders was able to block a purchase eight years ago by Detroit's Fisher Bros...
Pete Briggs will start in the goal. Lindsey Fisher will make the trip, but because of an injury during practice this week, he will probably not do any goal tending...
...stone on their shoulders. Angry guards bayoneted one P.W. when he walked out on a Russian movie. A Texas corporal was forced to stand on tiptoe, his hands tied behind his back, his neck in a noose that would choke him if he sagged. Some were beaten. Said Sergeant Fisher Watkins: "They pistol-whipped me, but they didn't knock me down." He added confidently: "They couldn't hit you that hard...
...came to the governor's bare, functional suite because Mechem wanted to show off New Mexico's painters. Mechem laid down only two restrictions: nothing too extreme or experimental, nothing that would offend good taste. Fisher hung his first exhibit in the governor's office in January 1951, has put in a new set of pictures about every three or four months since. The current show includes work by New Mexico's well-known Peter Kurd, who contributed Ranch near Encino, a typical vast, sweeping Kurd landscape. But it also has works by less famed painters...
...governor's rotating show got a lot of New Mexicans interested in art, including Ed Mechem. He bought three works himself. Says Museum Director Fisher enthusiastically: "He used to like strictly realistic stuff, Indians and cowboys. Now he even likes abstraction...