Word: hiatus
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...years," Sculptor Leon Underwood says. "The ravens fed me; but since ravens do not have watches, they often came very irregularly." Today, at 71, Underwood does not have to depend so much on ravens. People have begun to buy his work, for when, after an eight-year hiatus, he finally consented to a one-man show in London two years ago, British critics raved about his youthful ability to turn, as the Manchester Guardian's Eric Newton put it, "hard bronze into lambent flame." Last week the U.S. got its first good look in years at Sculptor Underwood...
...Bert and his self-conscious older brother Harry (with voices supplied by radio's Ray Goulding and Bob Elliott) fumbled engagingly through ads witty enough to keep chortling viewers out of the bathroom during program breaks. Last week Bert and Harry fans were chortling again. After a painful hiatus, during which Piel's advertising consisted largely of jarring jingles, the struggling Brooklyn brewery-which was bought early this month by South Bend's Drewry's Ltd. U.S.A.-has decided to bring the brothers back...
...lost their first nine games, and went on to even bigger things. Now they were deep in the cellar, 23½ games off the pace, and they had just run up a 17-game losing streak-the worst record of any team in New York history. But after a hiatus of four years, National League baseball was back in the big city, and the fumbling, bumbling New York Mets were the sensation of the 1962 season. For whatever perverse reasons, the fans were wild about them...
Summoned back to Government service after a nine-year hiatus was Mrs. Eugenie Anderson, 52, quietly elegant Minnesota Democrat who became the first woman ambassador in U.S. history when Harry Truman sent her to Denmark...
...passage of months took some of the sting out of the scandals, and last week Dilworth found his way out of another ticklish situation: he had just achieved a hiatus in a bitter 4½-month strike by the International Association of Machinists against Yale & Towne, lock manufacturers. Basking in this glow, Dilworth announced his forthcoming resignation as mayor, preparatory to declaring for Harrisburg next month...