Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last message from the drop-bellied, high-tailed Navy Privateer was brief and businesslike. She was over the German North Sea port of Bremerhaven heading northeast toward the Baltic into bad weather, she radioed the U.S. Air Force Base in Wiesbaden. At Wiesbaden the four-engined patrol bomber had refueled some three hours before, a Navy stranger out of Africa, carrying a crew of four officers, two mechanics, three radar technicians and a communicator. She was supposed to be flying some kind of navigation training flight "nonstop to Copenhagen and return...
Dave Trayner, Bruin mound ace, and Scott Ricketson, who will start for Dolph Samborski's team, both throw from the port side...
...News "got the idea" for its story from Commander McLaughlin, the same man who wrote the True story. U.S. News did not talk to McLaughlin ("He was out at sea") and did not quote him by name; but the editors had evidently relied heavily on his reports. In port at Boston last week with his destroyer Bristol, McLaughlin disavowed the U.S. News piece as full of "wild statements...
This week his winning way with paint and reporters was making news once again; a Dali Madonna appeared on the cover of This Week magazine, to illustrate an interview with the new Dali by news-wise Art Critic Emily Genauer. Dali had painted the picture last summer at Port Lligat in Spain, showed it to Pope Pius XII last fall. The Pope, Dali said afterwards, showed, "extraordinary comprehension" of his effort...
...Port Lligat Madonna (see cut) was more traditional than appeared at first glance. The face of the Virgin looked like that of Dali's businesslike wife Gala, but he had given her a Raphaelesque pose, fixed her in a harshly geometrical composition and surrounded her with a Renaissance vocabulary of symbolic images. For example, the egg suspended from the scallop shell over her head was taken from a 15th Century Madonna by Piero della Francesca. The shell symbolized baptism, the egg, Resurrection...