Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clear Cut Landscape, by Milton Avery, 63, was acquired by the women's board of the San Francisco Museum of Art for "about $1,500." Grace Morley, the museum director, recommended its purchase because "Avery is a very distinguished colorist, and in the American school color isn't our strong point. The painting is a semi-abstraction of a very subtle kind. In the context of American painting Avery is considered a very important master, and we were anxious to have his point of view, his subtlety, represented...
...take Milton Eisenhower long to make the grade. Ten months after he took over, the students officially awarded him the title traditionally reserved at Penn State only for presidents who have won the respect and affection of the campus. The honor was well deserved. Never before had Penn State known the prosperity or prestige that came to it under Milton Eisenhower...
Early Habit. The youngest (he is now 56) and most bookish of the Eisenhower brothers, Milton had already acquired the habit of success. After graduating from Kansas State College with a B.S. in journalism, he served as a U.S. vice consul two years in Scotland, later became special assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture under Calvin Coolidge. At 28 he was made the department's director of information. He stayed on even after Henry Wallace took over, rose through a succession of posts culminated by the associate directorship of OWI during the first years of World War II. Then...
...Milton Stover Eisenhower, president of Pennsylvania State University LL.D...
...Milton Berle: "Milton is a ham. He does use other people's jokes. He will do anything for a laugh. But the important thing ... is that he gets the laugh...