Word: leone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pioneer merchandise houses were actually led by seed companies and, curiously enough, sporting-goods retailers. Their prosperous successors in the fitness era are such companies as Seattle's Eddie Bauer and Orvis, in Manchester, Vt. The most famous of all came along in 1912 when Leon Leonwood Bean started selling his rubber-bottomed hunting shoes from a Main Street address in Freeport...
...event also featured speeches by two of the hottest items on the area GOP circuit: Frank L. McNamara '69 and state Rep. Leon Lombardi. McNamara is waging a heavily financed campaign against House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. in the 8th Congressional District. Lombardi is running for lieutenant governor...
Even when these enthusiasts do bend to the current pressures for law-and-order, they tend to do it in their own dreamy way. At Bard, where President Leon Botstein decided last year that all students should attend an intensive three-week workshop on how to think and write, the students pondered such questions as the nature of justice. What color is justice? What shape is it? What sound does it make? What does it eat? "I can't think of anything," one student protested at the first such writing class. "Don't worry about it," the teacher...
Crippled for 17 years, Leon Fleisher makes a stirring comeback...
...friend suggested that he shave off his beard and call himself Noel Rehsielf, which is his name spelled backward. But Leon Fleisher said he would go on, which is no spelled backward. To demonstrate to the world that, after 17 years, he could once again range up and down a piano keyboard with both hands, he chose the most visible occasion he could find: the inauguration last week of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's $23 million Joseph Meyerhoff Hall...