Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...current exhibit at the Fogg Museum is the first in a series of joint exhibitions with the Morgan Library to be held here and in New York. In inaugurating the series, the local museum staff found its inspiration in the recent publication of the definitive edition of Rubens' letters by the Harvard University Press. Nothing that the letters contain little about the painter-diplomat's family life or his art, the Museum has attempted to at least do something about the latter by composing an exhibit of Rubens' drawings and oil sketches from American collections...
First Shoes. During the 18th century diamond rush in the inland plateau state of Minas Gerais, Diamantina was a rich, bustling city of 40,000 inhabitants. A local diamond magnate even had an artificial lake and several miniature ships built, so that his mulata mistress could ease her nostalgia for the sea without making the three-week muleback trip to Rio. By the time Juscelino Kubitschek was born, Sept. 12, 1901, the synthetic sea had long since vanished, along with the diamonds, and hillside Diamantina had shrunk into an uneventful, cobble-streeted town with a population of less than...
...blank," was soon free on $2,500 bond. But the victim, a 33-year-old drifter, slightly wounded in the shoulder, was jugged as a material witness, with bail set at $5,000 (later halved to the amount that sprang Billy). At week's end, Daniels, his local cabaret entertainer's card lifted, hopped off to Hollywood. Before he left, he was asked about rumors of a $10,000 hush-hush payoff to the cops. Shrugged Billy, who had been knocking down $10,000 a week at a brassy Manhattan nightclub: "I don't have that kind...
...race against time. Most bankers expect sales of independent banks to out-of-state holding companies to be banned under legislation now pending in Congress. However, said Frank N. Belgrano Jr., Transamerica's 60-year-old president and chairman, Transamerica's recent purchases had been suggested by local banks that wanted to sell. This week Transamerica's traders moved on to Ogden, Utah, Marriner Eccles' home base, to discuss a deal with the Bank of Utah. Next stop: Denver, where Belgrano has made an offer for Central Bank & Trust Co., Colorado's fifth biggest...
...Davis ("Buck") Weaver, 64, star third baseman for the old Chicago White Sox (1912-20), who was barred from baseball for "guilty knowledge" of the 1919 Black Sox scandal; of a heart attack; in Chicago. Weaver continually pleaded his innocence, spent his last years as a parimutuel clerk at local racetracks...