Word: giro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Artist Giro forget to put eleven men on the defensive team, or does he believe that football is played like hockey, with men being sent to the penalty...
TIME, Aug. 30 and Artist Giro are to be congratulated most sincerely on the remarkably expressive portrait of Burma's U Nu-a message of calm intelligence from the East to the West...
When Artist Guy Rowe ("Giro") is not working on a cover painting for TIME -such as this week's portrait of Burma's Premier U Nu- he likes to take a brushman's holiday and sketch faces elsewhere. One of his favorite hangouts is in the upper reaches of mid-Manhattan- a nondescript restaurant which is a popular early-morning gathering place for a strange group of customers that ranges from cab drivers and nightwatchmen to bookies and brokendown prizefighters. To these customers, who are either starting their day or ending their night, Guy is just...
...first TIME cover to carry the signature of "Giro" was that of General Dwight Eisenhower (Sept. 13. 1943). Since then Guy has done some 60 cover portraits for TIME. One which he remembers rather quizzically was the cover on Russia's former police boss, Lavrenty Beria (July 20, 1953) During his work on Beria, a rush order came from another magazine for a portrait of St. Paul. "It was," says Guy, "a matter of working alternate days on good and evil...
...Huntsville, Ala., she stopped off for a look at Los Angeles, visited a small nightclub, and landed a singing job after getting into an audience-participation act. She was the demure type in those days, with long hair and bouffant dresses-"real silly." She played such big rooms as Giro's in Hollywood and New Jersey's Riviera with "moderate success...