Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undiscovered collection of Picasso paintings is big news in the art world. Last year a solid tip that such a collection did exist was given to pretty, U.S.-born Rosamond Bernier, onetime Paris Vogue staffer and now co-editor (with her French husband) of a new, ambitious art review, L'Oeil (circ. 30,000). Address of the collection: 48 Paseo de Gracia, Barcelona. The owner: Picasso's younger sister, Maria Dolores de Vilato. Editor Bernier, who eight years ago charmed Picasso into letting her get the first pictures of his Antibes paintings, headed straight for Barcelona. The pictures...
...wall to keep off evil spirits), he is of the upper class, and he talks without self-consciousness of "the little people." He is proud of his Vietnamese heritage: "We are a country of principles, an old country, a country built village by village. Viet Nam is a solid thing . . ." And he is reluctant to change it, but: "Sometimes I think we Asians are too reserved, talk too much by nuance. We ought to learn to be rude in our talk like the Americans, and get things done." Diem rarely speaks harshly of fellow Vietnamese who are Communists, because...
...simultaneously. To give the judges a break, today's épées are equipped with electric switches in their tips. Wires run down the fencers' arms and out the tails of their jackets to reels that are mounted at the end of the fencing strip. A solid touch with either épée sounds a buzzer and turns on a light. The hookup can distinguish between touches only one twenty-fifth of a second apart...
Gola, Jack Steepens, Ed Conlon, Jesse Arnelle, Dick Hemric and company controlled both backboards and played good solid ball, never getting tense under the Globetrotters' tight defense...
Captain George MacDonal will start at catcher, backed up capably by "Bing" Crosby and Phil Haughey. MacDonald hit a solid .283 clip to rank second on last year's team...