Word: wall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shall I tell you of the other ones? The squat little man with the crew-cut who sold his soul and pen to an Elsie's wall mural fo three blue punch cards. Or the intense young man with thinning hair and a changing voice who reads Wallace Stevens to a saxaphone solo. Or the boy from the Bronx who writes Spanish poetry...
...other Wall Streeters saw solid reasons for the rally...
...years Belgian Archaeologist Edmond Fouss has been excavating Roman and pre-Roman ruins near the village of Buzenol in southern Belgium. Three weeks ago his workers came on a wall of stone blocks apparently taken from a monument built in the 1st or 2nd century A.D. and made into a fortification. Many of them are carved, showing scenes of ancient provincial life. On one of them are a man and woman holding hands. Nude dancers gambol across another...
Francis I, whose predecessor, Louis XII, is credited with bringing back Leonardo da Vinci's Virgin of the Rocks from Milan (he wanted to bring Leonardo's The Last Supper, but it was impracticable to remove the mural from the wall of Milan's Santa Maria delle Grazie), is responsible for starting the Italian collection. Four of his Da Vincis and six Raphaels are still in the Louvre. When Catherine de Medici, a generation later, erected her own palace on the site of an old tile factory, the Tuileries, more than a quarter-mile away, and suggested...
...Wall Street jargon, a "free rider'' in Government bonds is a speculator who buys into a new issue of Governments-often on margins as low as 5%-and hopes they will rise a point so that he can get out with a quick killing. The big advantage is that he can put up only $5,000 to get $100,000 worth of bonds; if the bonds advance a point-as they often do shortly after issue-the free rider can sell at a profit of $1,000. The danger is that the bonds also can go down. Last...