Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confused with British Novelists Greene (Graham) and Green (Henry...
...quotas; a no vote meant $1.20 without them. In Washington, Ind., where Daviess County farmers marked ballots in the stone courthouse, windburned Norman Lawyer (who has 136 acres of wheat) asked a basic question: "Why should any farmer vote to cut the wheat price support in half?" Said Tom Graham, who plants 600 acres of wheat on his 3,000-acre farm north of Washington: "If wheat price supports fell to 50% it would hurt not only the farmer but every businessman in this county." Added Edna Dougherty, whose husband has 30 acres of wheat on his 120-acre farm...
...most honored living painter is half a century old this summer, and basking in the rays of glory reflected from a big retrospective show at London's Tate Gallery. In the exhibition catalogue, two of his country's leading critics pay him extraordinary homage. Artist Graham Sutherland, says Sir Kenneth Clark, is "the outstanding English painter of his generation, and in the last 12 years has had a dominant influence on younger artists." Sir Herbert Read goes even further: "Sutherland is possibly the first English painter since Turner who has been bold enough to take up an independent...
Underpaid. In Melbourne, Australia, in the hospital for removal of two razor blades swallowed on a bet, Seaman Albert Graham told doctors: "It was a silly thing to do for only two quid [$4.48]. It was worth at least a fiver...
Died. Willis Smith, 65, freshman Democratic Senator from North Carolina; of a heart attack; in Bethesda, Md. In 1950, entering a four-way primary race for the U.S. Senate, Corporation Lawyer Smith waged a bitter campaign against the incumbent, Fair Dealer Frank P. Graham, "to save America from the social planners and plotters," won an upset by 20,000 votes. In Washington, Newcomer Smith became an investigator on the Senate Judiciary Committee...