Word: riche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paintings in Portinari's show in São Paulo told of more enduring evils. Many were staring close-ups of the poor-which he sells for fat sums to the rich. Lately Portinari has abandoned the sad grey plains and squat, nubble-knuckled figures of his earlier years in favor of a tropically brilliant, anatomically believable world that blazes with sunshiny yellows and royal-purple shadows. But though he has changed the colors of his palette, he has not changed his political colors. The clear new light in Portinari's newest murals-including that of the Tooth...
That was about the last time the San Francisco press erred on the conservative side. In its rowdy, street-brawling career it has spawned some rich newspaper legends and some tough and capable newspapermen. One of the best of them, City Editor John Bruce of the Chronicle, has marshaled the legends and the men in Gaudy Century (Random House; $3.75), a new book as bouncy and nostalgic as a ride in a stagecoach...
When the Federal Government won title to the rich submerged oil lands off the California Coast, Texans feared their offshore oil properties would be the next target. They were right. Last week Attorney General Tom Clark, a Texan himself, asked the U.S. Supreme Court to give the Federal Government title to the Gulf of Mexico's offshore lands now being "illegally leased" by Louisiana and Texas to private oil companies. Estimated amount of oil in the 780-mile coastal strip: 10 billion barrels...
...began, as so many things begin, over cocktails. The River Valley Club is an unpretentious looking boat club on the Ohio, but its members are the rich and elite of Louisville, Ky. who tie up their cruisers there to drink and talk and play all-night poker. Church for most of them used to be a place for christenings, weddings and funerals-and perhaps for a service on Christmas and Easter. But somehow, during the war, the River Valley members began to find themselves talking about how the center of each community should be its church-and there...
...Clingman agreed to stay for a year. He organized Saturday sports-soccer, football, baseball. Other boys began coming, sons of gardeners, or "river rats" who fish for a living. The children brought their parents, helped build the congregation up to its present 210, with a healthier cross section of rich and poor...