Word: louise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are lesser known figures as well as established greats: a still life represents polish-born Louis Marcoussis who became in Paris one of the most sensitive cubists, yet remains little recognized. Henri Hayden, another Polish expatriate, is represented by Les Trois Musiciens, reminiscent of the two much produced Picassos...
Al, who was born in Tropea, Italy (real name: Umberto Anastasio), started his career almost as soon as he jumped ship in New York in 1917 to become a dock-walloper on the Brooklyn piers. In 1921 and 1922 he spent 18 months in the death house at Sing Sing...
The first round eliminated all but 15 players. The second (Marin Marais's La Folia or the second movement of Kodaly's Sonata, Op. 8) cut them down to four. In the finals, first prize and 350,000 francs ($833) went to the U.S.'s Leslie Parnas...
Died. Dr. Gerty Theresa Cori, 61, Czech-born U.S. biochemist, professor of biological chemistry at Washington University's School of Medicine (since 1947), winner (with her biochemist husband Carl) of a Nobel Prize in medicine in 1947 for studies of the body's uses of starches and sugars...
Author Parkinson is the Darwin of the managerial evolution. Of special interest is his Law of the Decline and Fall of Institutions : "a perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse." Is the tourist awestruck before St. Peter's in Rome? The Popes...