Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great painter Peter Paul Rubens. In Antwerp's Koninklijk Museum last week, painters and art lovers were learning from Student Van Dyck. The exhibition, in celebration of the 350th anniversary of his birth, contained 134 paintings, sketches and etchings, showed both the strengths and weaknesses of imitative, academic genius...
...spare time, Lydia wrote advertising circulars which her sons distributed door to door. But sales were precious few until son Dan invaded Brooklyn with 20,000 of his mother's handbills. ("KEEP ME SUPPLIED WITH PAMPHLETS," he wrote exuberantly.) Lydia, it turned out, had as much of a genius for advertising as she had for pounding herbs. She addressed herself directly to women, discussed their complaints with frankness but never with vulgarity, harped on their fears of ignorant and unhygienic doctors...
Prayer for the Future. Despite its mounting troubles, the Congress Party still has three great sources of strength: the personal magnetism of Nehru, the organizational genius of Patel, and the still eloquent ghost of Mohandas K. Gandhi...
...Villager, a prosperous (circ. 26,000), country-style weekly published in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, appeared a sentimental eulogy last week of its star columnist. "I shall always think of him," wrote Reader Katherine Caldwell, "as one of the great ... He had the lofty detachment of a genius and the warm friendliness of a child. When he stared me down with a frigid hauteur, as he sometimes did, I could have been swept up in a teaspoon. But when he moved in on me grandly and condescended to occupy my lap, I felt as though I'd made...
...principal owner of the nationwide Schulte cigar-store chain, chairman of the board (1923-45) of Park & Tilford, Inc. (liquor and cosmetics), president of Dunhill International, Inc. (tobacco and perfume); in Holmdel, N.J. One of Manhattan's biggest real-estate operators (he had an intuitive genius for choosing the right corner-site retail stores), Schulte began as a $5-a-week errand boy, ended owning nearly 200 stores in 125 cities...