Word: stucco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rhee and Franziska moved to Washington, where Rhee acted as U.S. representative of the Provisional Government and arbiter of all Korean activities in the U.S. They lived simply, bought a twelve-room stucco house on 16th Street only after advisers suggested that it would be a good idea to have a reasonably impressive establishment. Rhee, who drank no Western liquors and smoked only an occasional cigarette, avoided Washington's cocktail party set. Most of his time was spent in attempts to interest the State Department in the Provisional Government and Korean independence. Even after World War II began...
...Manzu ranks with Marino Marini (TIME, Feb. 27) as Italy's top sculptor. The stocky, intensely religious Milanese never went to art school. A stucco worker, he turned to sculpture 20 years ago and found he could make a living teaching what he had never studied. Manzu hopes to complete his Vatican commission in four years, and that it will "resist the centuries." Says he: "I would give all my blood for this door...
...Richmond, Calif., Builder Paul Trousdale (TIME, Dec. 2, 1946) has teamed up with ex-Prizefighter Joe Louis and plans to build 4,000 houses for Negroes. In San Francisco, Builder Henry Doelger has put up so many rows of his five-room, white stucco houses (one story above a garage on a 25-ft. lot) that local wags call the southwest corner of the city the "White Cliffs of Doelger." Just outside Chicago, Builder Nathan Manilow, whose well-planned Park Forest development on a 2,400-acre plot makes a complete city of 3,000 rental houses, is getting ready...
Maurice Utrillo, 66, still paints a few of the Montmartre scenes whose pale, subtle coloring and cool geometry of composition made his fame. But red-eyed, emaciated "Monsieur Maurice" no longer visits his old haunts; he sits at home in a suburban stucco villa, staring at his buxom energetic wife and dreaming of the dear, drunken, amazingly productive old days...
...prospective buyers stormed in and around seven sample stucco and wood houses, priced from $8,000 for two bedrooms to $9,000 for three. All had automatic garbage-disposal units, stainless steel kitchens, picture windows and garages. By week's end 611 houses had been sold (no down payment for veterans, one-third for others), and the buyers could count on moving in within two months...