Word: grecos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Illinois small towns. But his local reporting doesn't stop with box socials and births. He once used the Pantagraph to promote one of the best art shows ever held in the Midwest, proved that Illinois farmers by the thousand would pay two bits to see an El Greco...
...peace problem, was being waged in Germany and Austria. Paris was only haggling over the peripheries of the peace-Italy, Finland, the Balkans. But they were rough edges, and the Big Four had left many a major issue unsettled in the treaty drafts: the Italo-Yugoslav and Greco-Bulgarian borders, the exact status of Trieste, reparations, Danubian free trade, the disposition of the Italian colonies. Of these problems the delegates of the 21 nations at Paris had not yet solved a single...
Italy's first President is a 68-year-old lawyer who lives in Torre del Greco, near Naples, with an old nurse who takes care of him. He was President of Italy's Chamber of Deputies when Mussolini dissolved it, never collaborated with the Fascists. Italy well remembered the election speech of this last pre-Fascist President of the Chamber in 1920: "All shall feel their love for this our land-cradle of us all and deathbed of our fathers-grow more tender as crisis threatens. . . ." Scattered critics complained that "he never did anything bad [because] he never...
...jumping from a fifth floor window, after Modigliani died. From her wide, red-skirted hips to the top of her brown hair, the artist had turned his mistress into a slow, serpentine spiral, given her an other-worldly beauty which would be horrible in real life. Like El Greco, Modigliani liked to stretch people out of human proportion. He graced Madame Hebuterne with the neck and shoulders of a swan. The small, vacant eyes and ski-run nose looked less than human, gave her face the blank, melancholy look of an African mask...
Along Greece's northern frontier, "incidents" were occurring with remarkable regularity at the rate of one every other day. British and Russian occupation troops, facing each other across the restive Greco-Bulgar border, were getting into each other's sphere of influence and into each other's hair. The controlled Yugoslav press, taking its cue from Marshal Tito's blast at Greek "terrorism" (TIME, July 16), screamed insistently about "20,000" Slav refugees from Macedonia. To Salonika from Athens hurried Premier Admiral Petros Voulgaris to make a personal investigation...