Word: stooling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chevy Show, Frank Sinatra and Dinah Shore teamed up to put the imprint of their own engaging personalities on a repertory of ditties reminiscent of the enchanted evening when Mary Martin and Ethel Merman just pulled up a stool in front of the camera and sang some old songs...
...have proved effective ambassadors. For many it is a year of personal triumph. Among these is Headmaster Henry Callard of Baltimore's Gilman School, who taught a year at King's School in Bruton, England. When he and his family left England, his pupils sent him a stool used at Queen Elizabeth's coronation in Westminster Abbey, solemnly recorded in their magazine: "Whenever in the future any of us feels irritation at the utterances of some American politicians, we shall remember the Callards, and our ruffled feelings will be soothed by the reflection that it is people...
...Paris in a huff after Monte Carlo's stuffy old Casino refused to admit her in toreador pants. Another Monte Carlo visitor who fared worse than Marlene was spaniel-faced Cinemadman Mischa (Something Always Happens) Auer. He 1) broke an arm in a fall off a low stool, 2) then suffered a deep cut on his rump in a tumble from bed as he reached for a bottle (mineral water), 3) on rising from his bed of pain, met a friend whose hearty get-well backslap dislocated Auer's shoulder...
Middleditch's own orbit ranges from vigorous, sweeping outdoor scenes that left one observer feeling that a ripening wheat field "might start rippling before your eyes" to harshly lighted, strong-colored still lifes depicting such mundane subjects as a bucket on a stool and a bunch of sunflowers (see cut). Says he: "The point about us is that we paint what we see around us. But we try to give it a new vision." The British Arts Council is so impressed by the New Realists' new vision that it is making the Kitchen Sink School Britain...
...case that had been bungled from the beginning: the prosecution of ex-Sergeant John David Provoo, a Californian who took up Buddhism in his youth, lived in a Japanese monastery, later enlisted in the U.S. Army. Captured on Corregidor in 1942, at 25, he served the Japanese as a stool pigeon, according to his fellow prisoners, and brought about the execution of a U.S. captain. But the Army brought no charges after the war, and Provoo re-enlisted; it was 1949 before he was indicted for treason, and 1953 before he was sentenced to life imprisonment...