Word: parked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the 1,268 delegates and a couple of thousand party workers swarmed into the bleak Coliseum in Ottawa's Lansdowne Park, the party had still to slough the ill-fitting skin worn during six years of John Bracken's bumbling leadership. In his farewell address, pedestrian John Bracken argued that to get anywhere, the Tory party must become "a crusading party dedicated to the welfare of the ordinary man and woman." That was not the mood of the convention. Said Acting Chairman M. Grattan O'Leary (of the Ottawa Journal), as he shut off the polite...
...knows yet how he operated so successfully under Boss Bill Veeck, who last year tried to fire Boudreau until the fans stopped him. This season, while Boudreau was busy shaping a winning team, Veeck was filling his ball park (baseball's biggest, with a capacity...
Norway's Gustav Vigeland spent a lifetime on one of the vastest projects a sculptor ever attempted. It fills Oslo's Frogner Park (TIME, July 16, 1945), and promises to remain among the most controversial works of modern times. With perhaps five years to go before all of Vigeland's sculptured legacy can be cast, TIME Correspondent William Gray found Oslo citizens of two minds about it. His report...
Flying Tackles. Norwegian critics never go that far, and laymen seem to like the statues-at least, the park draws visitors of all ages in droves. As for blunt-spoken old Gustav Vigeland (who died in 1943), he refused to consider criticism for a moment. Oslo's city fathers gave him what he demanded: carte blanche and an expense account for 24 years to do for Oslo, if he could, what Michelangelo did for Rome (total bill: some $5,000,000). As his part of the bargain, Vigeland gave Oslo more than 120 groups of park statues...
...those early years were realistically proportioned, often graceful. But Vigeland's conception of the human figure changed over the decades, and his work came more & more to reflect his new (and increasingly stereotyped) ideal-thick-bodied women of action and bull-necked men. Among the samples in Frogner Park: a male tossing a female over his shoulders; a male carrying off a female while she, with one leg over his shoulder and another around his chest, pulls his hair; a female knocking her male over with a high flying tackle...