Word: nan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Using the low point system, the top skipper in the regatta two Sundays ago was junior Sandy Storer, the Radcliffe captain. Nan Stevens was the crew. Jane Chalmers also was a key factor in the win, assisted by crew member Lisa Fulweiler...
...steamy morning, a young librarian named Neil Klugman (Richard Benjamin) meets vacationing Cliffie Brenda Patimkin (Ali MacGraw). Neil is a wry, unfocused dropout, from both college and society. Sleek and chic, Brenda has had not only her nose fixed but her psyche as well. Her mother (Nan Martin) is a fashionably haggard parvenu who objects to Neil's background, his manners and, most important, his drab occupation. Brenda's father (Jack Klugman) commits a more serious sin-he trusts his daughter and lets her know...
...believe that it is fairly well known that Nan Wood Graham was the woman who posed for American Gothic [May 10], but I have always been puzzled about why the identity of the man in this famous painting should be so shrouded in anonymity. He was Dr. B. H. McKeeby, and he was a Cedar Rapids, Iowa, dentist. It is a local Cedar Rapids legend-this being a case where the legend may be the truth-that Grant Wood picked Dr. McKeeby as a model while McKeeby was filling Grant's tooth...
...recall that Dr. McKeeby was rather sensitive about the painting; so was the whole state of Iowa, although both Dr. McKeeby and Iowa eventually got over that. Even so, in the early 1940s, a good deal of persuasion was required to get Nan Wood Graham and Dr. McKeeby to pose for a photograph with American Gothic in the background, the occasion being the first hanging of the painting at the Cedar Rapids Art Association (Grant had done virtually all of his good early work in or near Cedar Rapids). The persuasion of Dr. McKeeby, who died some years ago, entailed...
...some people really think that Nan Wood Graham posed for the bikini and topless versions of American Gothic, she should be happy to pay Johnny Carson and Playboy magazine $9,000,000 in appreciation...