Word: ludlow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Died. Ludlow Griscom, 68, a leading U.S. field ornithologist who used to go bird watching with Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II; after long illness; in Cambridge. Mass...
...more obscure of the apostles, is also subject to historical confusion. The symbolic knife he holds derives from the story that he was flayed alive in Armenia. Out of ignorance of this tradition, one of Rembrandt's own later versions now in Downton Castle, near Ludlow, England, was long titled Rembrandt's Cook...
August vespers will start on the 4 with The Reverend Edgar C. Reckard, Chaplain at Brown University; and will be continued by The Reverend Chalmers Coe, Hartford Seminary Foundation Hartford, Connecticut, on August 11. The Right Reverend Theodore Ludlow, retired Suffragen Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, will end the season on August...
...Gibson girls (at $1,000 a drawing) and Frederic Remington to paint cowboy scenes. In 1919 the magazine was sold to Crowell Publishing Co. (whose predecessor firm had bought Companion in 1885), turned from art and exposes to cartoons and light fiction. Circulation tumbled, recovered under able Editor William Ludlow Chenery (1925-43), started down again after World...
...reign was exposed, and he was eventually sentenced to a year in jail for forgery, grand larceny and conspiracy. Later, a $6,000,000 civil judgment was returned against him. When asked his occupation for the jail records, Tweed replied: "Statesman." With official connivance, Tweed escaped from the Ludlow Street Jail and fled to Spain, where authorities recognized him from a Thomas Nast cartoon and arrested him as the kidnaper of two American children. Reason: the cartoon had shown Tweed clutching two symbolic ragamuffins. Tweed was returned to the U.S. and died in jail...