Word: williams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Less than a month after his re-election to one of the country's toughest jobs-mayor of New York-hard-working, onetime city cop William O'Dwyer, 59, was ordered by his doctors to Bellevue Hospital with "almost complete nervous and physical exhaustion." One indication that he was really relaxing: when a small fire in his kitchenette brought 22 firemen and a police detail swarming to his hospital suite, Hizzoner slept through...
...harried lifetime, Vincent Van Gogh painted some 800 pictures. Was one of them the candlelit, unfinished self-portrait in the collection of Cinemagnate William Goetz? The artist's nephew and Amsterdam Museum Director Jonkheer WJ.H.B. Sandberg thought not (TIME, June 6). On the other hand, Van Gogh Experts Jacob Bart de la Faille and Paul Gachet thought it was. To settle the matter, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, which had on display the most comprehensive Van Gogh exhibition ever seen in the U.S., picked a jury of American experts: Museum Men Alfred Barr Jr., James Plaut, George Stout...
...Ernest William Barnes, Bishop of Birmingham, England, seems to believe that Anglican sensibilities should be shaken well at regular intervals. Last week, speaking before the Birmingham Rotary Club, he set off another of his Episcopal cannon crackers. Sterilization of "the unfit" and the killing of "defective" babies, he said, would be a fine thing for Britain...
...owners had perished in the S.S. Noronic's ill-fated voyage from Detroit to Toronto (TIME, Sept. 26). But by nightfall the Free Press picture had produced the footwear's flesh & blood owner. His explanation: he had not gotten around to collecting the shoes. His name: William J. Scripps, a director and son of the owner of the rival afternoon Detroit News...
...last acts of frail, white-haired Composer Bela Bartok before his death in 1945 was to complete a viola concerto for William Primrose. In the University of Minnesota's Northrop Memorial Auditorium last week, a near-capacity crowd brought Violist Primrose back onstage six times with thunderous applause. With Conductor Antal Dorati's Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, he had given the first public performance of Bartok's tragic, lyrical swan song...