Word: spelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that he could help by interpreting the Western world in scrambled calligraphs of his own invention. They made his name, started a fad for snarled, sloppy-looking abstractions that is still going strong. Such younger Seattle painters as Morris Graves and Kenneth Callahan sat at his feet for a spell, and Manhattanites Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning may well have been influenced by his exhibitions...
Daughter of a well-to-do Roman architect and engineer, Pier got her look of lean intensity from a spell of malnutrition late in World War II. Though she was never trained as an actress, her delicate features and impressive sincerity made her the "discovery" of three different moviemakers in search of talent. The most recent, Teresa's Scripter Stewart Stern, came across her in Rome after she had made her first movie (Tomorrow Is Too Late) in Italy. After he met her, Director Zinneman thought "she was one of the few genuine film talents I have ever known...
...their tenth child's sudden national fame. So has Patti: "Sometimes when people stare at me, I can't believe it's true." In her KTUL days, she also sang a bit in a Tulsa nightclub. But she regarded her singing jobs as merely an earning spell between high school and marriage. She began to build as a singer when a fast-moving, pressagent-manager type named Jack Rael took her over. He signed her as a songbird with Jimmy Joy's band, got her a recording contract...
...wonderful town," says Di Salle "but I don't think the country could stand two of 'em"). When action-loving Charles E. Wilson moved in to take supreme command of mobilization, it was busy, good-humored Mike Di Salle who seemed to Wilson to spell "do something"; it was nervous, cautious Alan Valentine who seemed to spell "do nothing" (actually Valentine did want to do something, but just couldn't seem to get along with people or get the hang of going about...
Webster's Dictionary ("I can't spell...