Word: leos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even on the jumbo or Texas-sized map of Texas, the cattle and oil town of Electra (pop. 7,500) is hardly bigger than a fly's off-hind footprint. But to its mayor, a hulking, oil-rich, ex-circus roustabout named T. Leo Moore, Electra is the pearl-handled, goldplated, diamond-studded axle of the universe. When the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway threatened to have its streamlined Texas Zephyr blow through Electra without stopping, Mayor Moore began to paw dirt...
...Leo Marx 4G has won the $400 Helen Choate Bell Prize for 1948-49, Sargent Kennedy, Registrar and Secretary of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, announced yesterday...
Named to participate in the Triangle Series with Yale and Princeton, beginning Wednesday, May 18, were Julius Adler, David L. Auerbach, Leo Bersand, Allen J. Lichtenberg, John G. Morey, and Lester L. Ward, all of the Class...
...ideas instead of shapes. (Low point: a head of Christ with a crown of bona fide barbed-wire thorns and chandelier pendants for tears.) But the abstractions seemed little better: Theodore Roszac's spiny steel Recollection of the Southwest looked no more handsome than a broken bedspring, and Leo Amino's colored plastic Remembrance of Things Past might have been mistaken for a highly original gumdrop display. Such eccentric exhibits made the few conservative examples of academic excellence (including a pair of female nudes by Raymond Puccinelli and Oldtimer William Zorach, both entitled Invocation) look even, finer than...
...strong right arm of Johnny Sain (TIME, April 11), the best pitcher to come along since V-J day. In other camps, managers were racking their brains to plug holes in their lineups. The New York Giants had Johnny Mize and some other fence-busters, but Manager Leo Durocher was willing to put a pricetag on Mize or almost anybody else if it would bring him pitching. There seemed to be no eager bidders. No one had any marketable pitchers, and burly old (36) Johnny Mize was a property of doubtful value. He could still slam the ball...