Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...judge who ousted him, Roman Catholic John E. McGeehan, "had last distinguished himself by trying to have a portrait of Martin Luther removed from a courthouse mural...
Whistler's famed Portrait of the Artist's Mother has canonized Mother; but what about Father? The National Father's Day Committee has searched for two years for a painting that would bring Father out of the nowhere into the here. The committee checked over 3,000 paintings by celebrated artists, from Giotto to Grant Wood, last week-with Father's Day (June 15) just ahead-gave up the search...
Over a fireplace in Sir Robert's country house, Denham Place, Bucks, hangs the portrait of an ancestor, Henry Vansittart, who was Governor of Bengal. That was the Vansittart who once sent his brother a live baboon, which the brother promptly presented to an organization both men belonged to, the Hell Fire Club, where the baboon was given the Eucharist at every meeting. Blasphemy had burned out of the family by the time Robert Gilbert Vansittart came along, as the conquering spirit had burned out of most Englishmen...
...twelve years a journalist in the Orient, Ernest O. Hauser has not been content to meet the East over a Scotch & soda in Tokyo's Imperial Hotel. He has dug his way deep into the mysteries of Oriental temperament. Honorable Enemy is a knowing and compassionate portrait of the Japanese character...
...bottom of this page are the first clear portrait ever made of individual molecules and the first detailed glimpse of a chemical reaction. Shown privately last fortnight before the American Philosophical Society (TIME, May 5), these pictures appear this week in public for the first time-released in the Journal of Biological Chemistry by Wendell Meredith Stanley and Thomas F. Anderson of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research at Princeton. The huge, self-reproducing molecules here pictured are the cause of the mosaic disease of tobacco plants - viruses similar to those which cause such human ills as smallpox, influenza, infantile...