Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grand Chenier and Johnsons Bayou ("Those towns are nothing but hills in the swamp," said Cameron Parish Sheriff O. B. Carter) rolled Audrey's vicious tidal wave, ripping and twisting hundreds of homes, crumpling four fuel storage tanks under the hurled weight of a huge offshore oil barge, flinging two 50-ft. fishing boats onto the main street of Cameron (pop. 3,000), the seat and only incorporated town of the parish...
Acquitted last week by a Portland (Ore.) jury: Portland's Democratic Mayor Terry Schrunk, an indignant witness before the McClellan committee (TIME, March 18), who had been charged with perjury in denying to a county grand jury that he had taken a gambler's bribe while sheriff. Still ahead: trials on subornation of perjury and wiretap charges...
...front runner, and his co-driver of last year, Ninian Sanderson, rode in the runner-up. A pair of French drivers took third; two Belgians were fourth. The fifth Jaguar was sixth. Said Flockhart's mustachioed co-driver, Ivor Bueb: "The Italian teams have a little Grand Prix of their own. and between themselves they blow one another up. My first rule always is to stay out of trouble." Running twice around the clock, only 21 of 54 starters finished, but Bueb and Flockhart's dark green car stayed out of trouble, completed the equivalent of five consecutive...
Donald Stoltenberg received the overall Grand Prize for his painting "Times Square No. 2." This is a large work in which the patches of light jump out at the beholder with almost blinding force. Strangely, the painting improves if looked at from an oblique angle...
...national invitational exhibition contained 53 paintings and 15 pieces of sculpture. Of the paintings only a handful--such as Corrado Marca-Relli's "The Seeker" and Adja Yunkers' "Composition II"--were unworthy choices. Jack Levine's "The Judge" (see cut at right) won the Grand Prize It is indeed a masterly work, executed in splotches of restrained browns and dull white that take shape only at a distance. Other exceptional works were George Grosz's "Night-mare," Mitchell Siporin's "The Gallery," and Max Weber's "Flute Player." William Kienbush received honorable mention for his competent "Coast of Baker Island...