Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Placid. Born in Russia, Blume was brought to the U.S. at five, grew up in Brooklyn. He went to work at 13 as a lithographer's apprentice, studied art on the side. At 18 he got an advance from a Manhattan gallery so he could paint fulltime. ("I've been able to get along by just painting ever since, though things haven't always been rosy.") Now 42, he lives with his wife in a small house in Sherman, Conn. His daily schedule is "just getting up and going to work. Nothing ever interferes with that...
Though the company went on to become one of the biggest watchmakers...
...that President Guild-en bowed out in favor of 42-year-old Paul P. Johnson, who had been hired as general manager. But Waltham needed more than new blood; it also needed new money, and it already owed Boston banks $4,000,000. Unable to get the cash, it went into receivership...
...Weinstock went back he could not say, except that perhaps it was simply because he was tired of running and had decided that, live or die, he might as well be home. When he woke up the next morning, he found the ghetto in turmoil, overflowing with hundreds of supposed Jews who had been driven in from the countryside. Peasants who "knew as much about Jewry as a Polynesian knows about the Vatican" camped in other people's houses and in the streets...
...Lancaster packed his criteria and went off to Greece, where the British government had assigned him to the Athens embassy as first secretary. After 18 months he returned to London with his standards intact and a sheaf of sketches of what he had seen. The result is a handsomely and pointedly illustrated travel book that will even delight readers to whom the word "Acropolis" recalls nothing but a tiresome, quickly forgotten history lesson...