Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Luigi Lucioni has been called the most popular American painter since Gilbert Stuart. That is an exaggeration, but not a wild one. Lucioni has made outdoor Vermont his bailiwick, and no one paints it better. Working slowly and meticulously from nature, with tiny camel's-hair brushes, he mixes weathered barns, shady elms, blue-green hills and white steeples into canvases as crisp as a good salad...
Born in Italy, Lucioni came to Manhattan at ten, discovered Vermont eight years later. He worked his way through art schools, made a business success of painting while still in his 20s. A rough-hewn bachelor with pink cheeks and thick grey hair, he winters in Greenwich Village, plays and sings snatches from operas for relaxation. In Vermont he lives with two sisters, raises all his own vegetables...
...more extraordinary than anyone else's. I know the leaves are there so I paint them there." By dint of hard work and fine craftsmanship, Lucioni adds up enough leaves to make convincing trees, and enough trees, barns, hills, etc., to give an accurate idea of what Vermont is like. "There," a lot of summer tourists can sigh, "is my own, my native land...
Last week's New England Journal of Medicine tells how Vermont's State Pathologist Joseph W. Spelman solved the mystery. Cow's milk, he knew, differs from human milk in its relative amounts of calcium and phosphorus ash. Human milk during the first 30 days after a mother gives birth is also different from the milk of mothers between one and nine months after birth, and that of mothers after nine months. Analysis of the specks from the dead baby's stomach showed that their composition almost exactly matched that of mothers with babies nine months...
...rest of New Hamsphire, Vermont, and Massachusetts report none to poor. The weather bureau had no reports from Maine last night...