Word: leone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paint the mural, involving a total of 120-odd figures, Johns Hopkins commissioned Painter Leon Kroll, 71, famed as "dean of U.S. nude-painters," who labored 2½ years on the task. Unquestioned hit of the series, and for Muralist Kroll ("I like women better than men") a labor of love, are the Baltimore belles. To record them, Kroll started with nude models (see cut), then borrowed or bought authentic turn-of-the-century gowns, used photographs and Baltimorites' recollections to recapture the exact features and coloring of the originals...
...Organize drives for funds and clothing to be sent to the refugees and rebels through such associations as the Red Cross, CARE, the United Nations, and any others engaged in this humanitarian task. Surely if Harvard students and faculty members could organize fund drives for Wendell Furry, Leon Kamin and others, would they not be willing to contribute to this great cause? We could contact the National Student Association and Radio Free Europe, also, and offer our help in whatever projects they may have on this matter...
...Leon Volkov, a former colonel in the Soviet air force, Marek St. Korowicz, former Polish delegate to the United Nations, Leslie Tater, Hungarian television writer, and Stoyan Gavritovitch, former Yugoslav undersecretary of state, will also be on the program...
...records of loans made by the Lombard bankers of Italy to Crusaders passing through-and all were unearthed by the same genealogist, one Henri Courtois. But if these facts caused any doubts to arise, they were promptly quelled by the further fact that the greatest medievalist in France, Director Leon Lacabane of the Ecole des Chartes, authenticated each...
With the relaxed confidence of an old master, Puerto Rico's Luis Munoz Marin, 58, campaigned this month for a third term as the island's governor-a job first held (in 1509) by Juan Ponce de Leon. Wearing the usual rumpled seersucker, Munoz Marin stopped at roadsides, walked into rural shacks or perched on fences to trade ribald banter and homely philosophy with the jibaros (country folk) who support him. He called meetings of local committees of his Popular Democratic Party, and around tables loaded with bottles of beer and rum chatted with the politicos until long...