Word: rowboat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...married New York-born Painter Sage, became an American citizen. Their solidly luxurious country house in Woodbury, Conn, is completely unlike the artistic "house"' of Breton's poem. There are a stone terrace built by Tanguy (a do-ityourself fan), a pond with decoy ducks, and a rowboat for "harvesting the bull-rushes." Artist Tanguy works in a made-over barn. As he describes it, he simply stands before his easel and begins to paint?without plan, without thought of what he is doing. Says he: "I am still the prisoner of my skin while I am painting, but otherwise...
...messages concealed in pink balls of yarn. Properly jailed in January 1862, she was pardoned six months later and left prison wrapped in a Confederate flag. She finally died for her cause: trying to get to Confederate headquarters with desperately needed gold, she was flung from a rowboat in a heavy sea off Wilmington, N.C. as she tried to make shore from a blockade-runner. Weighted down by the gold she had hidden in her clothes, she drowned...
...first patients lived in log cabins like the one in which Abraham Lincoln was born, 15 miles from New Haven. To reach them, over rugged trails, Dr. Greenwell often had to leave the buggy and go on horseback. Sometimes he had to walk. He has also answered calls by rowboat and switch engine. Even when roads had been so improved that Dr. Greenwell could make calls by car, many of his patients had to be treated in their out-of-the-way homes because there was no hospital near by. Not until 1951 did Dr. Greenwell succeed in getting...
Cinemactress Shelley Winters, whose rowboat scene in A Place in the Sun helped make her an Oscar candidate two years ago, ran through the scene once again during her nightclub debut in San Diego. Wearing a "figure-clutching," ivory brocade dress, Shelley also warbled a few songs (Find Me a Primitive Man) well enough to win a cheer ("Socko") from Variety. But she was so sure she had done poorly after the first show that she burst into tears backstage. "I went out on the nightclub floor," she said, "and saw all those faces and asked myself, 'What...
...Says he: "There are more pleasure boats in the water than ever before. Once a yachtsman was a rich man who owned a big yacht with a paid crew. All that is changed now. A yachtsman today is anybody that owns a pleasure boat larger than a rowboat. The small yachtsman is the backbone of yachting...