Word: pencils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then the legend was well away. J. Carter Brown, the director of Washington's National Gallery of Art, leaped onto the bandwagon with a scissor-legged agility worthy of Tom Mix, committing his museum to an exhibit of some 125 of the 240 pencil drawings, watercolors and temperas of Helga. Billed as "a set of fascinating documents in the odyssey of the American artistic achievement," with a first printing of 250,000 catalogs, le cirque Helga opens this week and will, of course, be jam-packed until late September, when it begins its progress to Boston, Houston, Los Angeles...
DIED. Chinn Ho, 83, pioneering Hawaiian financial tycoon; of a heart attack; in Honolulu. Starting in high school as a pencil and thermometer salesman, Ho built a real estate empire that stretched from California to Hong Kong. Ho, the first man of Asian ancestry to be named president of the Honolulu stock exchange, was also the putative model for Hong Kong Kee, the wily businessman who outsmarts the white hierarchy in James Michener's Hawaii...
...even make it in the patriarchal establishment, you impotent scum," said Jill, ramming a pencil through Johnny's bleeding heart, which was now only difference...
...high schooler, with mental pencil poised above mental note-pad, hears only, "Co-ed, Harvard Yard, entry-ways, proctor groups, Houses, River, Radcliffe;" 'Co-ed, Sweet...
...ordered the usual 10 bowling trophies, two dozen gold electroplated thermometers and three personalized combination-pen-pencil- business-card-holder-paper-weights...