Word: isabell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Director of the new, nonprofit Music Academy of the West will be plumpish Isabel Morse Jones, whose championship of Western musicians last January cost her her 20-year job as music critic of the Los Angeles Times. Said Isabel of her new school: "We do not aim at educating hundreds. We hope to have a hand in training the talented...
...promise of cures or preventives for infantile paralysis has backfired so often that researchers are gun-shy. But this week a team of scientists at Johns Hopkins*-Drs. Isabel M. Morgan, Howard A. Howe and David Bodian-guardedly reported a new polio vaccine which, in trials on monkeys, has performed better than any other...
That way consisted of an adroit plugging of the common bonds of religion and blood which unite Spaniards and Argentines. It also involved some fancy costuming. It was the hottest day of the year when Evita got the diamond-encrusted Grand Cross of Isabel la Católica from Dictator Franco; but she wore a full-length mink cape. At the special performance of Lope de Vega's classic Spanish drama, Fuente Ovejuna in the Teatro Español, Evita turned up in a long cape of ostrich feathers. At the bullfight, which she held up half an hour...
From Madrid, the correspondent of Maria Eva Duarte de Peron's newspaper, Democraticia, cabled an alluring preview. The reception for Argentina's First Lady, when she came to get the Order of Isabel La Catolica* from Dictator Francisco Franco, would be "the most brilliant ever organized for a foreign guest...
Besides his enthusiasm for Isabel and sculpture, Lachaise had another: books about the North Pole. Said Poet E. E. Cummings, who was among the first to tout Lachaise: "There is one thing Lachaise would rather do than anything else, and that is to experience the bignesses and whitenesses, and silences of the polar regions . . . to negate the myriad with the single, to annihilate the complicatednesses and prettinesses and trivialities of Southern civilizations with the enormous, the solitary, the fundamental...