Word: paul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Norfolk, Federal Judge Walter E. Hoffman sternly turned down a new schoolboard appeal to delay integration another year while reserving the right to rerule after the Supreme Court is heard from; and in Charlottesville, Federal Judge John Paul told Warren County that it could not keep Negro pupils out of white high schools-the Negro high schools there were nonexistent...
...Partner Paul Mazur argued that Thornton was just another eggheaded visionary, said that any loan to him would go down the drain. But other Lehman partners, impressed by Thornton's job at Hughes, raised $1,500,000 in an unusual financing deal. Each investor was required to buy at least $29,200 in bonds and stocks. Each $29,200 package is now worth $522,760, and Mazur happily admits: "I was wrong. Thornton delivered far better than he talked...
...make his static electric, and a blinkered grope toward the past as suspenseful as a headlong crash into the future. Maggie the Cat (played with surprising sureness by Elizabeth Taylor) is young, beautiful, childless; her hot tin roof is the marital bed no longer shared by her husband Brick (Paul Newman), a onetime college athlete now tying on the booze bag every night in search of the "click in my head." Together they have come back to Big Daddy's "28,000 of the richest acres west of the River Nile," ostensibly for a family celebration of Big Daddy...
...painting that is not only a masterful work of art but also a fascinating footnote to an old mystery goes on display this week in Richmond's Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. It is Peter Paul Rubens' 10|½-in.-by-15-in. oil sketch for his Pallas and Arachne. The finished painting is long lost, and presumably destroyed-but still to be seen in a copy made three centuries ago by the Spanish painter Velàsquez...
Unmentioned in the agreement was the fate of Van Beuningen's most sensational buy, a Vermeer Last Supper that Belgian Art Expert Paul Coremans in 1947 identified as having been painted by Art Forger Hans van Meegeren (TIME, July 30, 1945 et seq.). The master faker's masterpiece is currently stored in the basement of the museum that Rotterdamers will henceforth know as the Boymans-Van Beuningen Museum...