Word: grecos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles County Museum showed off El Greco's magnificent, somberly calm St. Andrew.* Alongside the masterpiece, the museum displayed a fascinating find: a sheet of rare El Greco drawings in red chalk-preliminary sketches for St. Andrew and for another work (the head of a spectator in The Despoiling of Christ). For decades, the El Greco sketches had been misfiled in a British collector's album of drawings by Francisco Goya. They were picked up by Dr. William R. Valentiner, the museum's treasure hunter, for a bargain...
...fisherman and brother of St. Peter. During the reign of Nero, he was crucified by being bound to a decussate (X-shaped) cross. In the painting owned by Los Angeles, the martyr supports one shaft of the cross and raises a hand in blessing. In other versions, El' Greco pictured the scene from various angles and in different moods...
...picket line set up by A.F.L. Theater Managers and Agents marched in front of the Lyric Theater in Baltimore when Spanish Dancer José Greco and his troupe came to town. The charge: Greco was touring without the aid of a pressagent. Although the public ignored the pickets, and the fuss got good publicity, Greco gave in, hired a pressagent before moving on to Washington...
...didn't do it now, nobody else would." Thanks to Scalzo's tireless prodding, 41 competitors got on the mat to grapple for the Greco-Roman titles. The large turnout meant that matches had to be cut to ten minutes-from the regular 15. As in catch-as-catch-can, Greco-Roman allows points for falls, near falls, takedowns, reversals and "activity." Discredit points are handed out for illegal holds, unsportsmanlike conduct...
...match between former Intercollegiate Champ Walter Romanowski, now an assistant coach at Purdue, and Safi Taha, of Atlanta, who competed for his native Lebanon in the 1952 Olympics. Taha quickly ran through five elimination matches, scoring falls in all. But Romanowski, who had picked up a few Greco-Roman pointers, countered Taha's every move expertly, finally pinned his man in seven minutes. Coach Scalzo, looking ahead to 1956, was jubilant: "It proves what I've said all along. American boys can learn Greco-Roman...