Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since Lindy had the U.S. had such a hero. From the moment he stepped out of his capsule onto the deck of the Noa, Glenn was a marked man. His footprints on the deck were marked in white paint, to be appropriately preserved later on just as the touchdown spot of the Spirit of St. Louis was marked at Paris' Le Bourget Field. Glenn accepted his apotheosis as coolly as he had handled Friendship 7 on its flight through space. In the torrent of questions, he was articulate and at ease. There was honest pride in his great achievement...
...meters as Vim and Columbia; so do her 11-ft. 10-in. beam and her 70 ft. of overall length. The yacht's decks are of Canadian cedar, overlaid with waterproof blue fiber glass. Her hull is of Honduras mahogany, covered with six coats of white paint, decorated with a thin gold stripe and the five stars of the Southern Cross. Her sails, tailored from light blue Dacron, range in weight from ¼ oz. per sq. yd. (for the spinnakers) to 6 oz. per sq. yd. (for the mainsail...
Died. Kiyoshi Koizumi, 62, youngest son of famed author (and naturalized Japanese) Lafcadio Hearn, a moody artist who, despite his father's preoccupation with Japanese life and folklore, chose to paint in Western style; by his own hand (asphyxiation by gas); in Tokyo...
...Explosion." Congdon spent nearly a year on the staff of the American Friends Service Committee in Italy before returning home to take up a life in art. He rented a cold-water flat near Manhattan's Bowery for $17 a month, began to paint his vision of city life. Trained as a sculptor, he never bothered with brushes, instead squished thick layers of paint on masonite boards with palette knives, sometimes sprinkling on gold dust to provide added brilliance. Failing to find much spiritual light in Bowery life, he moved to Venice in 1948. There, he would wait, thinking...
...along. His two marriages broke up, he suffered from cancer, and not long after a serious operation he was in a nearly fatal automobile accident. Though the first glimmerings of recognition had begun to come to him, his depression became so acute that he could scarcely paint. On July 21, 1948, he went to the barn behind his home near Sherman, Conn. A few hours later, friends found his body hanging from a beam...