Word: heather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very much in Painter Yeats's mind, and he takes his subjects from Ireland's mythology, her countryside and cluttered city streets. His colors come from the purple-brown of Irish bogs, the emeralds and slate greys of Irish seas, the blues of the hills and heather. "An artist may travel the world and paint every imaginable scene," he said once, "but he will never succeed in painting a masterpiece until he takes it out of his own country, out of the place where he was born & bred, the place that is in his blood." The pictures...
Died. Ralph Forbes, 45, mannered actor of the old school, who came to the U.S. from his native London in 1924, stayed on to appear in more than 60 roles on Broadway (Hedda Gabler) and Hollywood (Frenchman's Creek); ex-husband of Actresses Ruth Chatterton and Heather Angel; of post-operative pneumonia; in The Bronx...
...airfield outside London last week a British Overseas Airways Stratocruiser stood waiting, bathed in floodlights. Prime Minister Clement Attlee, wearing a sprig of white heather in his lapel, told newsmen that he was "soberly optimistic" about the prospects of his forthcoming meeting with President Truman. Then the airplane, which bore the name Cathay, took off for Washington, carrying Attlee toward a conference which he hoped would prevent a war with Communist China. With him, the plane carried the hopes & fears of most of western Europe...
...William Barnie, 54, Scottish science teacher, who wore a prig of white heather in his bathing cap for luck, boasted: "I'm the oldest man ever to swim the Channel, and the first Scotsman...
Ashore, the waist-high grass smelled like heather, one of the men later remem bered. Commander Porter stationed two marines on the beach near their boat. After clambering up a small hill, sometimes slipping and sometimes falling with their heavy packs of explosive on their backs, the men discovered they were above the tunnel. Carefully they worked down to one entrance. It was a single track tunnel, blasted out of solid rock, about a quarter of a mile long, curving slightly. Using shovels they had brought with them, they dug into the railroad bed. When their shovels rang too loudly...