Word: g
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ROBERT G. CAMPBELL...
...York's Democratic Governor-elect Averell Harriman last week paid the first installment on a debt owed to a careful political bookkeeper. As his secretary of state, he named Tammany Hall Leader Carmine G. (for Gerard) De Sapio, without whose help Harriman would still be a wistful political aspirant. Since New York is willing to pay its secretary of state $17,000 (plus $3,000 expenses) for such light-housekeeping duties as licensing hairdressers and sitting as chairman of the Cemetery Board, De Sapio will still be able to devote full time to his real job: that of managing...
...Tongues. There were no grounds during the war for supposing that Alice's relations with her 14-year-old protégé were more than those of a dedicated teacher and a pupil in whom she recognized the spark of genius. But smalltown tongues wag easily, and Saint-Maur's gossips, titillated by frequent glimpses of Alice and Raymond strolling in deep communion by the river's edge, let their speculation run free. When Alice's poilu husband Gaston came back from the war a hero, the cheers that greeted him were mingled with many...
Near Mansfield, Ohio, a 265-acre farm, birthplace of 2gth U.S. President Warren G. Harding and the spot where, until his sudden death in office in 1923, he hoped to retire, was to be sold this week by three nephews of Harding. The log cabin in which Harding was born is gone, but the farmer buying the place has promised to preserve the pine trees bracketing the spot where it stood...
...show, at Gallery "G," was somewhat grandiloquently billed as "Twenty Masterpieces of Haitian Painting." It included few, if any, masterpieces. Yet Haiti's primitives have come a long, long way in the eleven years since the founding of Port-au-Prince's Centre d'Art, which supplies untrained local artists with painting material and a tourist market (TIME, June 7). The two most impressive painters in the exhibition have in fact achieved a high degree of skill and sophistication while keeping their roots deep in Haiti's voodoo-impregnated soil...