Word: stuarts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with precision of draftsmanship and a unique harmony of colors could portray the lofty assurance of Philanthropist Thomas Russell, wealthy New England merchant, or the visionary romanticism of Painter Washington Allston. Fine miniatures were also done by Sarah Goodridge, who painted the luminous portrait of aging, crusty Painter Gilbert Stuart, and by Charles Willson Peale, who did the study of phlegmatic-looking John Lowell of the Boston Lowells, member of the Continental Congress and a U.S. judge. Many of the miniatures, and not the worst, went unsigned, like the deft portrait of youthful Navyman Oliver Hazard Perry. A miniaturist celebrated...
...ground rules observed with equal fervor by editorial writers and politicians is that the Civil War is about as amenable to levity as motherhood. It was a reasonably calculated risk for President Eisenhower to call Confederate General Jeb Stuart a headline hunter, and for Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery to label Pickett's charge as ''monstrous." But when Ike and Monty jocularly agreed that Generals Lee and Meade should have been ''sacked'' for their blunders at Gettysburg (TIME, May 20). they committed themselves irrevocably to battle...
...plausible but otherwise unsubstantiated explanation advanced by Confederate Colonel W. W. Blackford in his vividly reported diary, War Years with Jeb Stuart...
...Many Cooks. Apart from technicians who thought they would qualify for the raises, nobody seemed very happy about the Wilson order. Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington, onetime Secretary of the Air Force, rapped it as "patchwork." Less publicly, Pentagon brass agreed with him. Trying to solve the nagging re-enlistment problem with so skimpy a measure seemed like trying to bail out a leaky rowboat with a beer can. What the military leaders wanted to see was adoption of the newly released Cordiner report, a thoughtful pay-revision plan drawn up by a military-civilian advisory committee chaired...
...weeks a sleek, needle-nosed model of the Matador guided missile has stood on Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's desk in Taipei. He genially parried questions about it. So did Vice Admiral Stuart Ingersoll, chief of the U.S. Taiwan (Formosa) Defense Command, who also had a Matador model on his desk. Last week Chiang stopped his parrying and explained: Formosa's defenses now include a Matador missile squadron, the first in the Far East...