Word: leos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Traffic School. In Milwaukee, Leo Stoll was fined $100 after he put a pistol to a cabby's head, said, "If you don't drive carefully, I'm going to kill...
...high school in the North Carolina mill town of Cornelius, Pitcher Wilhelm moved up through the minor leagues slowly. His chief problem was that few catchers could hold on to his pitches. He was 28 before he reached the majors with the New York Giants in 1952. Giant Manager Leo Durocher immediately made him a relief pitcher. "The knuckler can fool 'em for four or five innings," said Manager Durocher, "but Wilhelm hasn't got the hard stuff, to go nine...
Wholeness might not seem the first quality to ascribe to Leonardo, since he left most of his work unfinished. In fact, when Leo X commissioned him to paint a picture. Leonardo at once set to work distilling herbs for the varnish, and Leo complained that the painter would accomplish "nothing at all, since he is thinking of the end before he has made a beginning." Yet, though Leonardo did leave his St. Jerome unfinished, the whole range of human virtue, from leonine passion to saintly devotion, is here made manifest. Animal and intellectual interlock. The gold of dusk suffuses...
Harmony was Raphael's blessing, both in himself and in his art. The golden boy at the Vatican while still in his 20s, he was loved even by the older painters he displaced and adored by those who came after. Freeing of St. Peter from Prison, completed for Leo X in 1514, surrounds the top of a window overlooking a Vatican garden, and, until the window was blocked off (see cut), the picture looked dark by contrast with the light flooding in. Raphael took advantage of this apparent difficulty by making the saving angel the picture's chief...
Looking down on the ocean from the Presidio, San Francisco's history-encrusted Army post, Master Sergeant Leo P. Day saw what happened next. "I could see the boy in the foaming red water, shouting and signaling someone to 'go back, go back.' Then I saw the girl, swimming toward him, completely ignoring his warning. It was the greatest exhibition of courage I have ever seen...