Word: loos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...players held forth at the Provincetown Playhouse and the Beachcombers' Club was packed with hairy-chested writers, has staged a postwar cultural comeback, is now an oasis of abstract painters, most of them clustered around Manhattan Mentor Hans Hofmann, 75, whose summer class this year numbers loo-odd. Talk of the town: a lighthearted deviation from orthodoxy by one of the founders of abstract expressionism, Robert Motherwell, who is showing 32 line drawings of a nude model. ¶ East Hampton, Long Island's hard-driving avant-garde rival to Provincetown ever since the late Jackson Pollock moved there...
STEPHEN F. LOO...
...Queen has decided to entertain no more relations either direct or indirect with Miss [Greet] Hofmans," the faith healer whose influence over Queen Juliana caused a royal rift (TIME, June 25). Nor would Juliana attend any more religious conferences at ex-Queen Wilhelmina's country palace, Het Loo, where Greet Hofmans held sway over a religious-minded group of peace enthusiasts...
...Zealand rivals in Auckland to set a spate of records. Californian Parry O'Brien put the shot 58 ft. 4 in., and heaved the discus 159 ft. 3 in., for New Zealand marks. Helped by a following wind, Texan Bobby Morrow ran off a world-record-tying loo-yd. dash (09.3 sec.). New Zealander Murray Halberg also contributed a local record with an impressive 4:02.2 mile ¶Proving just how far professional football had progressed as a crowd pleaser, President Jack Mara of the New York Giants calmly turned down an offer...
...convicts broke out to the main gate before being beaten back. ¶1934: nine convicts and a guard died in "The Lincoln Day Break." ¶1952: a loo-ft. tunnel was discovered shortly after prisoners were given a dinner by the warden for digging no tunnels during the previous year. ¶1953: a convict-made bomb killed Prison Manager Albert Gruber. A two-day riot and $500,000 fire killed one prisoner, destroyed five buildings. One-quarter of the prisoners (400 men) held a "sleep strike" after using barbiturates to go on a mass bender...