Word: nudes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...professional storyteller, one of those who, troubadour-like, spin wondrous yarns for China's listeners. At Nanking's tea houses, sipping tea and cracking melon seeds, Kan unfolded a repertory that ranged from ancient sagas of Homeric scope to the modern story of a nude, female ghost that would have done credit to Thome ("Topper") Smith. But spectacled "Dim-Eyed Kan" was too bright for his own good...
Double Standard. At Fort Devens, Mass., Donald Potter began Army paratrooper training after the Navy rejected him because he would neither remove his nude tattoo nor drape...
...life-sized nude statue of Sabrina, goddess of Britain's Severn River, has led a hectic existence ever since a state official first presented her to Amherst College in 1857.* From the first, Amherst men heaped indignities upon her, painting stockings on her shapely limbs, clothing her in gaudy diapers, lugging her away from her pedestal to celebrate football victories. In the '80s, Amherst's president tried to banish her from the campus, but the janitor charged with her disposal confessed that he "couldn't kill a woman" and hid Sabrina in his own barn...
...specific suggestion for world peace: President Truman and Generalissimo Stalin, he said, should meet in the nude to talk things over-in a cave, or a holy city like Benares. The conference, said Gir, should be held in an atmosphere of "I have nothing to hide from you." Added Gir: "If the gentlemen have the vigor to accompany me, I will gladly lead them to an excellent cave...
...Angeles judge agreed that the grave of Showman Earl Carroll, in Forest Lawn cemetery, could be decorated with a new monument. He authorized the estate to pay $10,000 for a near-life-sized bronze statue of a winged nude, completed by Sculptor Adolf Alexander Weinman in 1915 and called Wings of Hope...