Word: leandro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Planned Economy. In San Leandro, Calif., after police stopped their car, two 15-year-old boys explained that they were heading for Mexico with $17, a bar of soap, a candle, an alarm clock, a bottle of whisky and a loaded 7.65-mm. pistol "for holdups when we run out of money...
...daily that nets close to $75,000 a year and has a brand-new plant. From his publishing earnings Sackett has also picked up control of two money-making radio stations, and now has an option on a TV station in Vancouver, Wash, as well as the San Leandro, Calif, daily News-Observer (5,473). In periods of expansiveness. Sackett has been known to roam the coast picking up options to buy papers as lightly as he tosses off philosophic oratory from William James, Santayana or John Dewey. Six years ago in Seattle, he announced he had bought the ailing...
...just one painter, "Bassano" had been the property of half a dozen. Jacopo's father Francesco was a painter of Madonnas and Christ childs for mountain churches, had passed the art on to his son. In turn, all four of Jacopo's sons were painters: Francesco. Leandro, Girolamo, Giambattista. One daughter, Silvia, married a painter; another daughter, Marina, had a son and grandson, both of whom became painters. All were influenced by Jacopo, and all used the adopted name Bassano...
...started them off as apprentices at the age of 15, spent years teaching them the fine points of his art. Sometimes, the old master would collaborate with them, sign paintings jointly. Son Francesco borrowed his father's talent for animated figures, turned out huge, animal-studded landscapes. Son Leandro experimented with new color tones. Sons Girolamo and Giambattista painstakingly copied Jacopo's style stroke for stroke. And still other imitators crept in, copying both father and sons. Before long, critics and collectors were thoroughly confused; no one could be sure which paintings were Jacopo's and which...
Died. Dr. Andrew Cowper Lawson, 91, professor emeritus (of geology and mineralogy) at the University of California; after long illness; in San Leandro, Calif. An authority on earthquakes, Scottish-born Dr. Lawson attracted nationwide attention in 1949, when, at the age of 87, he became the father of a son ("It's nothing, it happens all the time. I don't see why old men should be debarred from having families...