Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their precious window to Baptist Millionaire James Lewis Kraft, 77-year-old founder of Kraft Foods, and an ardent lapidary in his spare time. Cheesemaker Kraft began collecting rare natural stones one day in the '20s when he was out driving and saw some people scrambling up a mountain. Told that they were "rockhounds" hunting for rarities, he joined the group, has been a rockhound ever since...
...filing law. Purposely rigged against new parties, the law states that a candidate must get five thousand signatures in each of the state's counties to get on the ballot. Fish did fine in New York City, but he had to give up in the wilds of the Adirondack mountain counties, where it is hard enough to find five thousand inhabitants, let alone disgruntled Republicans. In Connecticut, however, Miss Vivian Kellems met the filing requirements and began sniping at both major candidates in her weekly radio program. She was a bit disturbed on her last broadcast over the fact that...
...succeeds his stepfather William W. Hawkins, 69.* After three years of college (William and Mary and Pomona), Scripps served a reporter's apprenticeship on the chain's Cleveland Press, put in a World War II hitch in the Coast Guard, has since worked on the Denver Rocky Mountain News and the Cincinnati Post...
...covers a wide literary spectrum. Among them: Novelists Evelyn Waugh, D. B. Wyndham Lewis and Kathleen Norris, Journalists Vincent Sheean, Rebecca West and Whittaker Chambers, Sportswriter Paul Gallico, Poet Alfred Noyes and Moviemaker John Farrow. The majority are Roman Catholics, and all but two-Trappist Thomas (The Seven Storey Mountain) Merton and Sister Madeleva, president of Indiana's St. Mary's College-are laymen...
Instead of the name of just one painter, "Bassano" had been the property of half a dozen. Jacopo's father Francesco was a painter of Madonnas and Christ childs for mountain churches, had passed the art on to his son. In turn, all four of Jacopo's sons were painters: Francesco. Leandro, Girolamo, Giambattista. One daughter, Silvia, married a painter; another daughter, Marina, had a son and grandson, both of whom became painters. All were influenced by Jacopo, and all used the adopted name Bassano...