Word: paintbrush
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...solid year, Father Joseph V. Rhodes, 37, of Paducah, Ky. has been pitching in with lathe, level, and paintbrush to help build a new parochial school. Last week classes began in Rosary Chapel School, a three-story brick building containing six classrooms and eight grades, living quarters for four Ursuline teacher-nuns, a cafeteria, and a basement auditorium seating about 200. But the statistic Father Rhodes was truly proud of was the enrollment: 150 Negro pupils...
...Florence C. Casler, 51, 41st employee of the U.S. Radium Corp. to die of radium poisoning; in East Orange, NJ. While working in the corporation's plant in Orange in 1917-19, Mrs. Casler, like the other victims, apparently swallowed bits of radium when she moistened a paintbrush with her lips while painting numerals on watch and clock dials. Apparently unaffected for 23 years, she showed the first symptoms of her fatal illness...
Well-Groomed Africa One of the brightest little art shows in Manhattan this week is the work of a Hollywood dress designer. But Gilbert Adrian, 48, is also a good man with a paintbrush, and after a six-week tour of Africa with his wife, Janet Gaynor, he has 19 oils to show...
...girls, giggling." She was married at 18 and kept busy thereafter with a baby, a nanny, a cook, a car, a house in London, a cottage in West Sussex, and, for diversion, an occasional visit to an art gallery. Until last year she had never touched a paintbrush in her life...