Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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King of the Black Market. In Chicago, Fulton Market buzzed with rumors about Pete Golas. Pete was paunchy (220 lb.), greying (52), scarfaced and vain. He refused to have his picture taken, as he considered a 15-year-old photograph (see cut) his best portrait. Until last fall, he was just a small-time peddler of livers and hearts. From dark meat to black meat was an easy step for Pete. He branched out grandly and mysteriously, bought control of a string of slaughterhouses from Omaha to Manhattan...
During the evening, a portrait of Dr. Leroy M. S. Miner, dean of the Dental School, will be unveiled by Dr. Calvin G. Page, grandson of the School's founder, Nathan Cooley Keep...
...Florida's stucco State Capitol last week, the portrait of Andrew Jackson, the great American roughneck, looked down on a scene that would have delighted his old frontiersman's eyes. Assembled there was the Southeastern Governors' Conference. Ostensible subject: the South's perennial freight-rate problem. Actual subject: the political rebellion seething below the Mason Dixon line...
Bears who celebrated last week on Berkeley's green, oak-groved hills above San Francisco Bay, found an alma mater with hundreds in uniform. In the sweeping, serene Hearst Greek Theater, they heard Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish draw a Paul Bunyanesque portrait of The American...
...conducted the orchestra in-his own new "Abertura Concertante" while not particularly remarkable or inspired, is pleasant and diverting. And knee-deep in a mid-western drawl, engrossed in his Lincolnian stance, speaker Will Geer skillfully assisted she BSO in the local premiere of Aaron Copland's "A Lincoln Portrait" to conclude the concert...