Word: louise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, despite the protests of writers from all over the world, including T. S. Eliot, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus and even French Communist Poet Louis Aragon,* the puppet dictatorship of Janos Kadar sentenced Tibor Dery to nine years in prison for his revolutionary activities. Sentenced along with him...
The $13 million-plus estate of the late Cinemogul Louis B. Mayer (TIME, Nov. 11) was divided, as now disclosed in his probated will, in L. B.'s characteristically forthright manner. To L. B.'s favorite charity, the Louis B. Mayer Foundation, will go the bulk of his...
Wyeth himself would have laughed at being compared in any way to the old masters. Not Ovid or the Apostle John, but men such as Daniel Defoe, James Fenimore Cooper, Robert Louis Stevenson and Jules Verne inspired his brush. He painted for children chiefly-half the time for the publishing...
From the first crack of the hammer by veteran Auctioneer Louis J. Marion, paintings by Picasso, Signac, Pissarro, Lautrec were knocked down at the top prices Parke-Bernet had noted in their confidential books. But when a handsome view of the Tuileries by Edouard Vuillard, appraised at $25,000, was...
On the two succeeding days, prices for French furniture, porcelain and bric-a-brac kept up the same furious pace. Items: a Louis XV Sevres porcelain soupiere, sold for $3,000 in 1941, was bid in at $29,000; carved and gilded Louis XVI armchairs went for $2,500 each...