Word: gi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voyager, Paul joined the Norwegian Merchant Marine when he finished high school in New Jersey. During the war, he was in one of the last units of the US Cavalry and was shipped to India, China and Burma. After the war he studied painting in Spain under the GI Bill for a couple of years. He doesn't have time for much of his own work any more. "I get more of a kick showing off other people's work. And really, I don't care whether someone buys a painting or not, but I'd rather...
...their initiation fee. Hence in 1952 some 83% of Equity members were unemployed. The ranks of those aspiring to frame and bright lights had been swollen by a large crop of college students interested in the arts and by thousands of veterans who had studied dramatic arts under the GI Bill...
...Peccant Peck Sir: Apropos of the Catholic "venial kiss" discussion | Oct. 8]: one imagines countless exchanges like this on Irish lanes: "Gi! Said a me lad a to a venial lass, kiss." "To Hell wi' ye, son. I kiss mortal, like this...
...hottest American painter in Paris these days is a 32-year-old Californian named Sam Francis, a husky ex-GI., who in the past five years has caused even palette-jaded Parisians to perk up. He has won raves for shows on both banks of the Seine, and Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, currently showing a Sam Francis painting among its new acquisitions, calls him "perhaps the best-known young American painter now working in Europe." Last week Sam Francis racked up another triumph. Museum Director Arnold Rudlinger of Basel's Kunsthalle, acting for a group...
...Murphy, an ex-GI with considerable experience, has been helping Lamar with the newer boxers. He may enter the heavyweight class...