Word: knights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prize paintings and sculptures, mostly dating from the 19th Century (and from the early Hupmobile raids). Among the standouts: a sad-eyed Woman with Yellow Shawl from Massachusetts, a tapestry-like little Apollo and Marsyas by Edward Hicks, and a Hogarthian Farmhouse Gossip (see cut), signed T. G. Knight, which she had found in Pennsylvania...
...Bertie McCormick's monolithic Tribune. Always happy to stick an irritating finger in McCormick's glacial eye, the late Colonel Frank Knox quartered the Sun in his spacious Daily News plant, let it use his presses at night and was nice about the rent. Hardheaded John S. Knight later took over the Daily News, but not its feuds. He played footie with McCormick; and as a landlord saw no reason to charge the Sun less than the traffic would bear. Last year he tripled Field's $353,000-a-year rent...
...burly Eli Oberstein, who bosses all popular records at RCA-Victor. Victor was badly in need of a girl singer to put up against such formidable competition as Columbia's Dinah Shore, Capitol's Jo Stafford, Peggy Lee and Margaret Whiting, and Decca's Evelyn Knight. Beryl has the kind of soft, low-pitched voice that climbs into a listener's lap. Oberstein, who had built up Dinah until she ran off to Columbia last year, signed Beryl, and agreed to help coach her into the U.S. big time, a complicated and careful process that involves...
...mark Señora Perón's visit. A Vatican messenger delivered a little red box containing the eight-pointed, diamond-laden Grand Cross of the Order of Pius IX,* with wide blue ribbon edged with red. It was for President Perón, will make him "Knight of the Great Ribbon...
...period [on your table] that night was at 10 p.m. I didn't get a strike until 9:45. From that time until 10:30 I caught a nice mess of crappies, weighing around two pounds each, and the sun fish were extra large." News like that makes Knight glow all over...