Word: forte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year) to build up its stock of the Renaissance and baroque schools. This year's latest acquisition is The Tiger Hunt by Rubens (1577-1640). And the most popular painting in the whole collection is still a crisply clear, 18th-century portrait of Mrs. Seymour Fort by John Singleton Copley (TIME...
BENJAMIN B. MOORE ist Lieutenant, Artillery Fort Bliss, Texas
WILLIAM G. MILLER and Lieutenant, Infantry Fort Benning...
Stanley Meets Livingstone. Nathan made his debut in the sticks; he was born in Fort Wayne, Ind. in 1882. At eleven, he was already scribbling playlets for the neighborhood children to act out in the Nathan barn. In his late teens, he went east to Cornell, where he edited the school daily, won a gold medal for fencing, received his B.A. in 1904. He topped off his education with a year at the University of Bologna. His uncle, Frederic Nirdlinger. a well-known critic and playwright, got him his first job of cub reporter and third-string drama critic...
...last fortnight a planeload of Pentagon brass arrived at Convair's Fort Worth plant, dropped a curtain of security over the flight date, and barred all reporters. Cain, a staffer for the afternoon Star-Telegram, drove his car as close as he could get to the test field, and for days kept watch, until colleagues began calling him "Audubon Cain, the bird watcher." When he finally spotted the YB-60 in flight he could only swear; it was too late to make his last edition, and the morning Star-Telegram, also owned by Carter, would get the break...