Word: heroic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Busman Charles Henry Darke, conductor on London's No. 60 bus route from Colindale to Old Ford and a faithful Communist for 18 of his 42 years, is a Communist no longer. The heroic stand of Britain's Gloucestershire Regiment against the Communists in Korea (TIME, May 7) had set him to thinking. Said he to newsmen last week...
...national fame led through Chicago and Paris. In Chicago he attended the Art Institute, worked part time as an apprentice in a local sculptor's studio. The neoclassic splendor of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, with its acres of white buildings and heroic statues, fired Eraser's desire to go to Paris: "It was the most inspiring moment possible for a young artist...
...Long live the great people of China, the freedom-loving people of Korea . . . American tanks and British cruisers can't put us down . . .' Then the May Day chairman, a strike leader from the southern oilfields, stepped to the microphone and shouted: 'We greet the heroic nations of the U.S.S.R. who are at the helm of the democratic front...
...platform before a light-blue backdrop on which was painted one-half of the world (minus the Western Hemisphere), the speaker shouted the same words again, and once more the crowd broke into a high frenzy. Three times more he shouted the same words, greetings to the 'heroic nations of the U.S.S.R.,' and each time the crowd nearly blasted him from the platform...
Died. Charles Keck, 75, onetime assistant to Sculptor Augustus St. Gaudens, and heir to his heroic style; of a heart ailment; in Carmel, N.Y. Among his best-known statues: Father Duffy, a Times Square fixture; Lewis & Clark, in Charlottesville, Va.; Huey Long, in Baton Rouge, La.; Andrew Jackson, in Kansas City, commissioned by Jackson County's Presiding Judge Harry S. Truman...