Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many of the winning amateurs were old hands. A taxi driver recalled that as a child he had drawn pictures of ballplayers instead of playing ball. A more recent convert had been persuaded to try after reading Irving Stone's story of Vincent van Gogh, Lust for Life, 'and W. Somerset Maugham's version of the life of Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence. Another novice confessed that his wife had given him a paintbox to keep him home nights. Most contestants had a contrary reason for painting: escape...
...University of Brazil's Medical School, where Physician de Barros got his degree in 1923, he handed out diplomas to the graduating class. He strode off to inspect the Centro Adhemar de Barros, a free clinic which he supports; lunched with 200 taxi drivers, dined with Benedito Valladares, chief of President Dutra's copa e cozinha (pantry and kitchen) cabinet. At a churrasco (gaucho barbecue) in the working-class district of Penha, someone threw an egg, spattering yolk over Adhemar's shirt. Snorted Adhemar: "A Communist." He called twice on Dutra, attended Mass, visited headquarters...