Word: strolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soviet Marshal Klimenti (the "Liberator of Budapest") Voroshilov is something of a connoisseur of art, as generals go. In the summer of 1946, when Hungary was looking for somebody to commemorate its "liberation" with a giant monument, Voroshilov found the man on the spot. On a stroll through a Budapest park, he had seen and admired a sculpture by Sigismund de Strobl. Voroshilov dropped in at De Strobl's studio on newly named Voroshilov Avenue, found the sculptor quite willing to do the job. But De Strobl would have nothing to do with the proposed designs, which called...
Occasionally he would get up, shuffle to the registration desk, ask the name and salary of some student he had seen scrubbing floors or waiting on tables. Then, with a curt "thank you," he would go back to his chair, or set off for his daily stroll. Old Smith was never known to buy any clothes and he always ate at the union cafeteria (the cheapest place on campus...
...sounded rather professorial, for a painter, but it helped some. A TIME correspondent who penetrated Matisse's seclusion last week found him far warmer than his words might indicate. At 78, Matisse spends half of each day in bed, and never leaves his house except for a short stroll in the garden after lunch. Illness has not dulled his appetite for life or for work. His blue eyes twinkle youthfully behind his thick glasses; his snowy little beard, jollity and industriousness make him seem something like Santa Claus. His bedroom and studio are both brighter than any toyshop...
Road to Rio. Crosby, Hope & Lamour stroll down Hollywood's easiest road to laughs (TIME...
Road to Rio. Crosby, Hope & Lamour stroll down Hollywood's easiest road to laughs (TIME...