Word: prato
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lilac Coif. Three of the most diverting larger pictures are by anonymous masters. The Prato Master is responsible for an exuberant Birth of the Virgin, in which graceful Florentine ladies foreshadow those in a similar scene by Ghirlandaio. The ironic hand of The Master of the Cloister of the Orange Trees can be seen in two scenes from the life of St. Benedict...
...strike overnight. The blackout did seem to improve the temper of the affair, which has tended to be insulting. U.A.W. bargainers have been complaining that Ford Negotiator Sidney F. McKenna works "like a computer," like to call him the "McKennacal Man." The union's veteran negotiator, Gene Prato, ended one recent session by announcing, in four-letter terms, that he'd had more than enough of McKenna...
Died. Gino Prato, 64, former Bronx shoemaker who in 1955 briefly became TV's top-rated star on The $64,000 Question, when he correctly identified the opera with which Toscanini made his operatic debut (Aida) for $32,000, then declined an all-or-nothing chance at the jackpot, after which he became a $10,000-a-year good-will ambassador for the Biltrite Rubber Heel Company; of cancer; in Miami...