Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Salt Lake City, Utah
Rowe says that the 3½-years he spent doing the illustrations "could hardly be called work. The project was alive." A native of Salt Lake City, Guy Rowe was a miner, cowhand, mechanic, acrobat, lumberjack and bill collector before he became an artist. His introduction to art came via a vaudeville act in which he drew chalk portraits of people in the audience on a blackboard. He went to art school and became a commercial artist-a field in which he is remembered for the still life portraits he did in the Jello ads. In 1943 he began doing...
Forty children, each four years old, last week assembled in the delegates' dining room at Lake Success to celebrate U.N.'s fourth anniversary. They were children of U.N. staffers and diplomats; under the watchful eyes of Mrs. Carlos Romulo, Mrs. Warren Austin and other U.N. wives, they cavorted in native costumes, ate ice cream & cake, and, in the words of the New York Herald Tribune, "declined to comment on international affairs...
...last April, copper-cheeked Margarito Castro planted corn on his hillside acre near Guatemala's volcano-ringed Lake Atitlán and prayed to the Virgin and a host of saints that rain might be plentiful and the harvest good. One morning last fortnight, after a plentiful harvest, Castro loaded the first quintal (100 lbs.) of corn into a dugout canoe and, with his two eldest sons, paddled across the deep-blue lake to the market in Panajachel...
...another day. Twenty-four hours later there was still no letup, and streams on either side of Panajachel were swollen. Castro went to church to pray that the rains might stop. All that night torrents fell, and Castro trembled with fear that his cornpatch might be washed into the lake or buried by landslides from the mountains. Next morning he joined the village elders as they dressed an image of San Francisco in a raincoat and paraded it down the street while they chanted prayers for the town's salvation. Half an hour after the procession, the rains stopped...