Word: mariners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...since. Incorporating themselves as Campaigns, Inc., they became the acknowledged originals in the field of political public relations (they are still the world's only permanent specialists in the field). In 1938 they made it a full-time partnership by getting married, and settling down in a rambling Marin County house with a heated, kidney-shaped swimming pool...
Luis Muñoz-Marin, governor of Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D...
Spring #1 aptly illustrates one of Marin's most complete statements of his approach to art: "Seems to me the true artist must perforce go from time to time to the elemental big forms-Sky, Sea, Mountain, Plain,-and those things pertaining thereto, to sort of re-true himself up, to recharge the battery. For these big forms have everything. But to express these, you have to love these, to be a part of these in sympathy. One doesn't get very far without this love, this love to enfold too the relatively little things that grow...
...continually "re-trueing" himself to nature, Marin avoided the last pitfall of great artists: pride. He loved life and enjoyed art to the last. His best biographer, MacKinley Helm, was with him a few days before his death, and tried to comfort him in his pain: " 'But think what it has meant, Mr. Marin,' I said, 'think what it mounts up to to have been painting past eighty and getting better and better...
...Marin] shook his head slowly. 'Nurse,' he said after a moment, 'please bring us some whiskey...