Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Casey Case. The ship-buying tactics of Niarchos and brother-in-law Onassis were blown out into the open when Congress started a stem-to-stern investigation of the immense profits that were made on war surplus ship sales. A congressional committee found that Massachusetts' former Representative Joseph E. Casey had joined the late, onetime Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr. and others in 1947 in what seemed like a surefire venture. Tankers were then in such demand that it was possible to make a down payment on a war surplus T2, get a charter from...
...Stern Resistance. Ernie King's reputation as a "sundowner" (seagoing for martinet) was legendary in the service. In the prewar Navy, where the work was sometimes slack, shore leaves plentiful, he ran a taut command from sunrise to sundown, often ordered gunnery practice on weekends. His drive−like his temper−was merciless. In 1926, while directing the salvage of the submarine 8-51, sunk with 34 dead in the Atlantic off Block Island, Captain King was advised by an admiral that he would never be able to get the submarine into a relatively shallow drydock. "Sir," replied...
...studies, footing all bills including those for tooth paste. Said Philanthropist Mesta: "That's why I have to work so hard, but why shouldn't I do it? Got no husband, got no family. Just a widow with a small income, eatin' money." Turning from stern fiscal realities to light philosophy, Perle reminisced about her old job as U.S. Minister to Luxembourg: "I learned to stop and listen. Told that to a reporter one day, and I got a letter from a woman who said, 'Thank God, you've learned to keep your big mouth...
...Painting Prize ($2,400): to France's Jacques Villon, 80 (TIME, June 6, 1955), who showed 38 paintings. Early Cubist Villon (who changed his name from Duchamp to hide his early art activity from his stern Normandy father) is a member of a long-famous painting family, which includes his brothers, Cubist Sculptor Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Marcel (Nude Descending a Staircase) Duchamp. For years Jacques Villon was out of the limelight, working as a newspaper cartoonist and engraver. He began achieving belated recognition when he won first prize in the 1950 Carnegie International...
...shapes not pattern, action not stillness, and character not spirit. Almost nothing is known about Smith, but his picture presents much more evidence than historians generally allow. The canvas makes plain that he had sailed the sea, that he had seen European pictures, and that he was a stern man, thoughtful of death. The poem under the pictured skull reads, in part...