Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been solvent for only two or three years, but now they buy my pictures as an investment. It's grotesque. I even have to sell my stuff on installments so the Government won't get all the money. That's legal, you know. A Virginia fellow saw a reproduction of a picture of mine and he bought it on the phone for $10,000. But I'm quittin' anyway. Of course I'm gonna paint, but I'm not gonna let the dealers push me around any more...
...South Bend, an unbelieving crowd of 59,305 saw mighty Notre Dame trail Northwestern into the last period, 7-6. This, too, looked for a time like the upset of the year. Then by sheer power, the Irish hacked and hammered at Northwestern's sturdy line, and finally managed to walk off field with their 20th straight victory since Nov. 9, 1946. The game ended with Notre Dame ahead, 12-7; it was Northwestern's last game with Notre Dame-at least for a while...
...Bank for Sight Restoration (TIME, Nov. 11, 1946 et ante). Last week the eye bank's third annual report told about his case. Other recent cases: a railroad worker, blinded by sparks, now has normal (20/20) vision. A nun from Ontario cried with joy when she saw her doctor's hands as he completed an operation to graft new corneas on her eyes. A Long Island mother, able to see only light and shadow since childhood, can now see her husband and two children...
...Christ. So says Author Alan Devoe in the current issue of the American Mercury. "When I was a schoolboy," writes Devoe, "I was told that once upon a time there had been a fine and honorable man named Abraham Lincoln ... a good and grave and great man . . . When I saw a picture of Abraham Lincoln I could immediately believe...
...famed Political Prisoner John Wilkes in the King's Bench prison. Wilkes had 15 guests in his cell that day, and Rush noted that he had an extra room for his ilbrary, "from which I formed an indifferent opinion of his taste and judgment." In France, Rush saw Louis XV, who "had a good eye, and an intelligent countenance, and hence he was said to be "the most sensible looking fool in Europe.' " The great Encyclopedist, Diderot, entertained Rush in his library, and the Marquis of Mirabeau invited him to a "coterie" at his home...