Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Painter Graham Sutherland, "is awfully like painting. However much you know about painting there's always the gamble as to whether that actual physical touch will do what you want it to." At 45, Sutherland is one of Britain's best landscape painters; until lately he had never tackled realistic portraiture. When his first try, a full-length oil of Author Somerset Maugham, was finished last week, artist and sitter agreed that the gamble had paid...
...very hard to explain how you can suddenly become a painter, especially for me-I talk like a Spanish cow-but my life absolutely changed from that minute. I started painting 12 and 15 hours a day. I never went to the cafés; I lost all my friends. When the war started I thought, 'Let the bombs fall. They won't fall on me; I have too much work...
...convict and the girl whose life he may save never saw each other. The prisoner, 49, serving a life term for murder in New York State's Sing Sing prison, lay under guard in a ward in Ossining Hospital, on a hill overlooking the high-walled prison. The eight-year-old girl was in a private room in the same building. She was near death from leukemia, the cancer-like disease of the blood-making system for which no cure is known. Manhattan Hematologist Harry Wallerstein took the child to Ossining because he knew that prisoners there were willing...
...dressing room, Henrich is the most imperturbable man on the squad. Although he makes $40,000 a year, Henrich is careful how he spends it, wears store suits and shirts (DiMaggio was always "a custom-made guy"). Henrich never volunteers advice to another Yankee, but when players come to him for help his blue eyes light up. Says one mate: "He's the kind of guy, you give him a watch and he'll take it apart and put it back together, and then write the watchmaker telling him what's wrong with...
...never smoothed off all his hillbilly edges, wriggled with shyness, protesting: "Aw, naw, general. But I've been reading a lot about you." After posting a 131 in the Celebrities Tournament, Sam struck out for Chicago...