Word: leger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...simple because they had to be done fast in order to make a profit. But, by coincidence, Kalighat painters advanced a long way on the road that School of Paris art was later to travel. They reduced limbs to the appearance of bent tubes, as has Fernand Leger, and delineated whole figures with two or three winding contours, as in some drawings by Picasso. The Kalighat Cat with Prawn (see cut) would seem perfectly at home in an exhibition of paintings by Henri Matisse himself...
...SCIENCE). Next day he dropped in at 10 Downing Street for a surprise visit, conferred for an hour with U.S. Ambassador Winthrop W. Aldrich. At week's end, he was in the royal box at Doncaster, where Queen Elizabeth saw her horse Aureole finish third in the St. Leger stakes, later joined the royal family at Balmoral Castle to celebrate his 45th wedding anniversary with Lady Churchill. The London News Chronicle, viewing all this activity with approval, commented: "Now that he is back in the news, life as the inhabitants of Britain have come to know it assumes...
...Doncaster, England, in one of the classic events of the British racing season, Brigadier Wilfred Wyatt's Premonition, third choice in a field of eleven, beat Queen Elizabeth's favored colt Aureole to win the St. Leger stakes...
...world's leading artists, a surprising number wear the Communist label in varying shades of red. In Mexico, Diego Rivera and David Siqueiros are all-weather Communists; France's Fernand Leger often parrots the party line; so does Italy's Renato Guttuso. Last week two of modern art's foremost painters, both avowed Communists, were displaying their latest approach to an age-old theme: war and peace...
...Cannes, the rich Aga Khan got richer by selling his unbeaten Tulyar, winner of the Epsom Derby, the St. Leger and five other British stakes races, to the government-sponsored Irish National Stud for $700,000. The news instantly 1) gratified Irish horse breeders, 2) roused Laborite opponents of Premier Eamon de Valera to demand a parliamentary debate on the purchase, "in view of the already heavy burden on the taxpayers...