Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They were married in 1886. Worshipful, practical Mary Tytler Watts took him to Egypt for their honeymoon, and they went up the Nile in a diohabeah. Mary reverently recorded all the master's offhand words in her diary...
There was a time when Italy led the world in matters of art. But last week Italy gratefully accepted the Mexican Government's offer to lend-lease its three master muralists (Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros). The big three will help convert Italy's gaudy Mussolini Era civic architecture to the uses of democracy. Their assignment: to furbish "Forum Mussolini," the Duce's red brick and white marble memorial to himself on the banks of the Tiber (now a U.S. Army rest camp), where young Fascists used to flock to learn fencing and fawning...
Born in Indiana, Pauley spent his youth in Alabama, then moved to California. He earned his way through Occidental College and the University of California, got a Master's degree in business administration. A 1924 airplane crash left him bedridden for a year. Recovered, he plunged into oil operations. As head of tiny Petrol Corp. he first fought the major companies, but when Petrol Corp. had its back to the wall, he allowed a major (Signal Oil) to bail him out. At 38 he was a millionaire...
...literature includes Sartre's Huis Clos (ClosedDoors), a drama laid in Hell with an infanticide, Lesbian and a military deserter as its chief protagonists. The cult's foremost disciple is Authoress Simone de Beauvoir, who lives in the same hotel on the same floor as the master...
Burlesquing all giveaway shows-including his own-Truth or Consequences' pap-happy master of ceremonies Ralph Edwards last week offered a radio prize to end radio prizes. Winner of his current voice-identifying contest will get this super-combination: a Bendix washer, a two years' supply of nylons, a 1946 Mercury, a Knabe piano, a $1,000 fur coat, a round trip to New York with a weekend at the Waldorf, a Tappan kitchen range, a Crosley Shelvador refrigerator, an RCA Victor radio-phonograph, an Electrolux vacuum cleaner, a Bulova wrist watch, a $1,000 diamond ring, maid...