Word: michele
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...Admiral Helfrich's veins runs the same sort of blood as that of the great Dutch naval heroes: Admiral Martin Harpertzoon Tromp, who fought the Spaniards and the British with equal ferocity and died with a British musket ball in his heart; his subordinate and student, Michel de Ruyter, whose conquering fleet once sailed up the Medway to within 30 miles of London; Vice Admiral Pieter Pieterzoon Hein, a splendid buccaneer who earned fame, plunder and death at the hands of Dunkirk pirates. These and other 17th-Century seadogs won for the Dutch the empire whose rich remnants Conrad...
Died. Louis Michel Eilshemius, 77, self-styled Grand Transcendent Eagle of Art; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A painter for some 50 years, he turned out more than 5,000 canvases, failed to attract either fame or buyers till he was a broken old man. He was then embraced as a cult, made the Metropolitan Museum, sold paintings at four-figure prices. A crippled, wandering-minded recluse, he observed: "It's too late to enjoy my fame." He died in a psychopathic ward...
...Louis Michel Eilshemius, scrag-bearded, self-styled Mahatma, Supreme Parnassian and Grand Transcendent Eagle of Art, spent half a century painting in obscurity, writing letters of self-praise to editors, growing poorer, bitterer, more desperate. In 1932, when he was 68, fame and recognition came to the old man. Two Manhattan galleries held exhibitions of his paintings, the Metropolitan Museum bought one. Last week, from the musty, gaslighted Victorian brownstone house his father left him (on which he was unable to pay the mounting taxes), Eilshemius was taken to Bellevue Hospital, placed in the psychopathic ward...
...music was by a Frenchified German Jew (Offenbach), the sets and costumes by a Manhattan-French commercial artist (Marcel Vertés.) the hats by chic U.S. milliners (John-Frederics), the choreography by a veteran Russian (Michel Fokine), the leaping and cavorting by a foreign legion of nationalities(the Ballet Theatre). Such was the ballet Bluebeard, a smash hit whenit was put on last week in Manhattan...
...Heiden blocking back, 180 Forte right end, 162 Gardiner right tackle, 202 Pfister right guard, 197 Page center, 167 Peabody left guard, 185 Miller left tackle, 250 MacKinney left end, 187 Farrell left end, 178 R. J. White left tackle, 192 C. Murphy left guard, 186 Evans center, 181 Michel right guard, 198 Olds right tackle, 195 Seip right end, 180 Jarrell blocking back, 175 Mazur tailback, 175 Hill wingback, 178 Hatch fullback, 175 ARMY