Word: joans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only reason we've survived is that there are too many of us. There are more of us than there is trouble." The curse of violent death has extended beyond the immediate family. Ethel's parents died in one plane crash, her brother George in another. George's wife Joan later choked to death on food lodged in her throat. Kathleen's husband was killed in World...
...undistinguished sobriquets as T.V. Commercial, Draft Card, Call Me Prince, Sir Beau and Forward Pass. The horse that captured the Belmont Stakes was Greentree Stable's Stage Door Johnny, whose name reflected rare wit and imagination on the part of its owners-John Hay Whitney and his sister Joan Payson. Stage Door Johnny's sire is Prince John, his dam Peroxide Blonde...
...Duryea, 61, Hollywood's slippery heel (Black Bart, Terror Street, Manhandled); of cancer; in Hollywood. Duryea sparkled as a versatile actor whose rough treatment of women shocked audiences and censors alike (1945's Scarlet Street was banned in New York, probably for his ungentlemanly slapping of Actress Joan Bennett). He went on to portray a modified villain, recently appeared in roles that allowed him to play the gentle soul for a change...
...University also honored Joan Miro, Spanish born painter well-known for his role in surrealism...
...Joan Miro, born in Spain in 1893, is one of the most well-known of the Surrealist painters of the '20's and '30's, a group fascinated, along with Andre Breton, in the potentialities of the Freudian dream state. At one end of the Surrealist school was the photographic realist Salvador Dali, and at the other was Miro, who employed for a while an automatistic method--that is, he began to paint without conscious thought and then continued consciously after studying what he had done...