Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rich is the mother lode of Italian art that four different generations of American collectors have mined it without too much duplication. Pioneer Jarves, whose collection was eventually auctioned off to cover his debts and bought by Yale for a bargain $22,000, is represented in the CRIA exhibit by a Sienese wood panel Annunciation, by Francesco di Giorgio and Neroccio dei Landi. The precise taste of turn-of-the-century Railway Heir Henry Walters is illustrated by the three exquisitely patinaed bronzes lent by the Walters Art Gallery, in Baltimore, which he founded. The spirit of J. P. Morgan...
...documentaries on silent movies and baseball, and starred in four one-hour specials and his own series, Going My Way. This year he was awarded an Emmy for the best children's program, Jack and the Beanstalk, in which he danced with animated characters, a technique he helped pioneer in Anchors Aweigh in 1945. Between times, he emceed the 1965 Arts Festival at the White House and toured West Africa as a cultural ambassador for the State Department...
Some beehive paintings depict fanciful versions of historical events: Ser bian warriors battling invading Turks, and even American Indians tomahawking white pioneer women on the old frontier. With the rise of world sugarcane production and the replacement of wax candles by incandescent bulbs, beekeeping has been on the decline for some time in Yugoslavia. But for the folk-art fancier, there is still plenty of honey in the old hives: genuine antique beehive paintings now bring up to $1,600 apiece. And at least one enterprising Slovenian, Vid Sedej, 28, is doing a brisk business selling his contemporary versions...
Even before the flight-a 215-mile hop to Nantes-27-year-old Jacqueline was on her way to becoming a flying folk heroine. French newspapers endlessly told how the pretty pioneer,* charmed by the tales of Aviator-Author Antoine de St. Exupery, worked in a factory as a teen-ager to pay for glider lessons, later finished at the top of the class in her pilot's exams-only to be turned down by Air France because long flights would be "too tough" for a woman. If a woman at the controls seemed odd to Air France...
...cereal come into being in 1924 than the Washburn Crosby Co., General Mills's onetime parent company, bought into a local radio station, used it to advertise its new product. The cereal was promoted by one of radio's first singing commercials ("Have you tried Wheaties?"), a pioneer coast-to-coast radio serial ("Skippy") and some of the earliest premium offers for kids anxious to be the first on their blocks with such prizes as Explorer Telescopes. Soon after the company began sponsoring "Jack Armstrong, All-American Boy" in the 1930s, Wheaties became "the breakfast of champions...