Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FRANCE'S Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres was once described as an artist who painted the beauties of woman "with the keenness of a surgeon, with the humble devotion of a lover." Last week, TIME'S Art editor discovered that one of Ingres' most famed portraits of a woman had been quietly shipped out of France, installed in a Manhattan apartment. For who bought it and how much, see ART, The Last Ingres...
...overmanage. His eight-member staff exists mostly to do his specific bidding, and on the infrequent occasions when Hagerty is away, things are likely to go wrong. Hagerty was in Paris preparing for the NATO conference when Ike suffered his stroke, and Associate Press Secretary Anne Wheaton, a competent woman who was Hagerty's own choice for the job, had neither the training nor the influence to prevent a memorable press foul...
Footprints in the Snow. The old woman's story runs thus: she was once a simple, pious country girl who was groomed for the role of prophetess at Delphi's prosperous temple. There she was clothed in a bridal robe, learned to get along with the temple snakes, eat the sacred laurel and become the ecstatic "bride" of the god who emanated from the cleft of a rock in the depth of the earth. As a Pythia she was alone, a social outcast, feared and avoided by the plain people of Delphi. She was totally filled with...
Fresh Start. In Lyon, France, Railroad Employee Roger Clavey-Rolles, 35, charged with breaking into a woman passenger's sleeping compartment on the Narbonne-Paris Express, explained to police: "I wanted to begin the year in good company...
More practical-minded police officials, however, were intent on finding the man, wanted dead or alive, who assaulted one woman and tried to strangle four others. All males five feet 11 inches tall, wearing grey jackets, and expressing a preference for creme de menthe were being watched closely, and sources hoped that an arrest would be made...