Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Independentistas, favoring immediate independence. They are led by Dr. Francisco M. Susoni, who recently quit the Popular Democrats and his job as speaker of the Insular House of Representatives...
Slender Lead. It was the fourth consecutive shutout by Manager Lou Boudreau's Indians, tying a league record set by Cleveland in 1903. What did Satch think of his performance? Said he, matter-of-factly: "I'm getting back in shape." But it would take more than Satch Paige in shape for Cleveland to clinch its first pennant in 28 years. The Indians promptly dropped three in a row to the White Sox, and hung precariously to their lead...
Even those who thought some of the bronze, wood and marble figures a bit stagy admitted that they were masterfully carved, with an unfailing simplicity of line and form. Ivan Městrović, the man who made them, was there himself to help install the show...
...done withinć the past 20 years, had been brought from Yugoslavia by his brother Petar. The hit of the Metropolitan show was a 5½ ton Pieta done in the muscular, dramatically contorted tradition of Michelangelo, and too big to transport to Pittsfield. The Berkshire exhibition emphasized Městrović's carved wooden bas-reliefs and single figures whose intensity made Hungarian Sculptor de Strobl's vaster ideas look blown up (see below...
...shepherd boy who inherited his father's passion for whittling, and grew up to be one of the best sculptors alive, Městrović has two closely related reasons for staying away from Yugoslavia: 1) he knows what the inside of a jail looks like (the Fascists jugged him at the start of the war, released him only at the Pope's request); 2) he is no Titolitarian...