Word: painted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lucy was naturally invited to Warm Springs in April 1945, when F.D.R. went south to try to recover his strength. She was accompanied by an artist friend, Elizabeth Shoumatoff, who was to paint a portrait of the President...
...area of expertise that Nelson stumbled. He decided to cover a wall of the main building at Rockefeller Center with a mural worthy of St. Sophia, and he commissioned the Mexican artist Diego Rivera, a celebrated Communist, to paint it. All went well until an unmistakable likeness of Lenin turned up in the mural. That was not acceptable in the citadel of capitalism in the 1930s. "As much as I dislike to do so," Nelson wrote Rivera, "I'm afraid we must ask you to substitute the face of some unknown man where Lenin's face now appears...
...born there. His birthplace was Omaha, where his mother Dorothy lived with her first husband, Leslie King, a wool trader. Ford was christened Leslie King Jr. Two years later, the marriage broke up, and mother and child returned to Grand Rapids. In 1916, Dorothy married Gerald R. Ford, a paint salesman, who adopted young Leslie and gave the boy his name?as well as his penchant for hard work, athletics and community involvement. He also instructed his stepson in a certain humility. Remember, he told the boy, someone else can always do the job better than you. The elder Ford...
...Ford has three half brothers. Thomas, 56, is a staff analyst for the Michigan legislature. Richard, 50, manages the family paint store in Grand Rapids. James, 47, is an optometrist in that city...
...Rich. People who took the trouble to look at Home-Stake's oil operations sometimes found them impressive, but if they had looked more closely they might have changed their minds. The Wall Street Journal reports Home-Stake employees persuaded a California farmer to let them paint his irrigation pipes orange so they would appear to be part of an oil-pumping network...