Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crack Russian Skier Valentina Nabatenko broke her leg while schussing down Cortina's Tofana mountain...
...display in Tokyo's huge Mitsukoshi department store was a newly discovered Sharaku depicting not another actor but a wrestler: the famed and presumably feared Daidozan ("Great Boy Mountain") Bungoro. Daidozan's career is almost as much a mystery as Sharaku's own. At eight, when Sharaku drew him, the little athlete weighed 180 Ibs. and boasted a 47-inch waistline. Sharaku showed him charging belly-on toward the spectator and squinting in delighted anticipation of the coming collision with his opponent. Daidozan never fulfilled his large promise, for he quit the ring at a mere...
...Franconia, the upper slope of Cannon Mountain was reported "fair to poor," while the lower slopes were in excellent condition. Franconia's Mitterstill is good to excellent...
...Boylston Street Print Gallery are paintings and stained glass by Warren Jennerjahn, a young artist who succeeded Paul Albers in the Art Department at Black Mountain College. Like Albers, Jennerjahn is an heir of the de stijl movement. His paintings show a Neo-Plastic preference for horizontal and vertical themes. The development of this kind of painting out of cubism is shown in the transition from a fairly realistic housetop view to a small painting of a studio window in which the qualities of design begin to take command. Most of Jennerjahn's other paintings consider the canvas...
Ahead of the President are the dinners of the Tulsa, Southern California, San Francisco, and Rocky Mountain Clubs and a joint reception of the Dallas and Fort Worth Clubs...