Word: lees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chance to Blossom. As a Congressman, Lyndon Johnson went pretty much down the line for the New Deal. He ran for the Senate in 1941 against W. Lee ("Pappy") O'Daniel-and got counted out by a highly suspicious 1,311 votes. He ran again in 1948, this time against former Governor Coke Stevenson-and got counted in by an equally suspicious 87 votes. During his first Senate days he was invited to a Southern caucus by the man who today stands as his most powerful backer: Georgia's Senator Richard B. Russell. There was an argument over...
...nonetheless, Broadway's brightest luminaries took over Sardi's with the sole unprecedented aim of honoring one of the enemy: the New York Times's gentle, erudite Brooks Atkinson, 63, dean of U.S. drama critics. Said Co-Sponsor Paula Strasberg, wife of Actors' Studio Boss Lee Strasberg: "It was a party given with love, to let Brooks know what theater people think...
...Greenwich Village studio. "I lunged right over," she remembers, "and when I saw his paintings I almost died. They bowled me over. Then I met him, and that was it." In the years that followed, the pair made art history: one with commotion-Jackson Pollock; the other with devotion-Lee Krasner, who became his wife...
...show of the work of bearded, tormented Jackson Pollock is still creating a commotion, though he has been dead for a year and a half. But even as the dead artist scores abroad, Manhattan is getting an exciting look (in the Martha Jackson Gallery) at seventeen oils painted by Lee Krasner after her husband's death...
Blue-eyed Lee Krasner, 49, was born in Brooklyn, got an academic training (Cooper Union, National Academy of Design), went on to study with Painter Hans Hofmann, who still cherishes her as "one of the best students I ever had." After she married the tempestuous Pollock, Lee became first of all a wife; she withdrew into the background, managed her husband's affairs, boosted his ego, heralded his triumphs. Hofmann recalls that "she gave in all the time. She was very feminine." The childless Pollocks bought a house in East Hampton, L.I., and he made the barn into...