Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Edison, by Matthew Josephson. A well-done portrait of the tobacco-chewing Ohioan, who became the U.S.'s most flamboyant inventor partly by being one of its best promoters...
...wedding: FEAR I MAY NOT BE ABLE TO REACH YOU IN TIME FOR THE CEREMONY. DON'T WAIT. Had he lived to his centenary (he died in 1903), the aristocratic Whistler would have been crushed by something far smaller than a telegram. His Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother, as Whistler titled the portrait of his mother, achieved the sentimental distinction of gracing a 3? stamp. With stamp collectors, at least, the waspish dandy had become an immortal...
...your cover portrait: even if we still can't put any of our hardware on the moon, we may yet have a chance to strike a telling blow for democracy with the world's first green-haired President...
...PORTRAITS IN JAZZ. Musical portrait of a jazz personality...
James Joyce, by Richard Ellmann. A Ulyssean portrait, fashioned out of minute detail, of the purposefully enigmatic author, here demystified but not debunked...