Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...18th century creche on TIME'S cover this week is one of the famous Neapolitan presepios that delighted King Charles III of Naples and his queen, who sewed garments of silk and velvet for such exquisitely wrought figurines. Using the simplest of materials-vegetable fibers on wire skeletons, wooden hands and feet, earthenware heads-noted Italian sculptors created these figures, which now enact the Christmas story in the apartment of a Neapolitan collector, where they were photographed by TIME'S David Lees. As the crèche appears on TIME'S first gatefold cover picture, it symbolizes...
Four seasons ago they began quietly showing up in the wooden stands behind Natchez (Miss.) High School, and strolling with practiced nonchalance across the field after the game to introduce themselves to the kid with the whiplash passing arm. By the end of this year, there was hardly a football coach in the South who had not cast covetous eyes on Perry Lee ("The Gun") Dunn, 18-year-old son of a Natchez factory worker. For Perry Lee is a quarterback with the roughhewn build of a tackle (6 ft. 1½ in., 207 Ibs.). As a senior...
Limbering Up. In Aosta, Italy, Salvatore Bracciorosso was arrested after using his wooden leg to fell several opponents in a barroom brawl...
...Yourself Christmas Tree. Six-foot Christmas trees with removable fir boughs that can be assembled at home were developed by Oregon Beauty Christmas Tree Co. for Montgomery Ward stores. The trees come in a kit containing 46 fireproofed Douglas fir boughs and a drilled wooden trunk into which the boughs are stuck to create a perfectly shaped tree. Price...
...cell they put the old and broken toys that had been collected-dolls without arms or legs, bicycles without wheels, Teddy bears without eyes. They made tiny wooden doll furniture, welded miniature sports cars, restuffed drooping Pinocchios. Gradually, the cell with the old toys emptied, while the one next door turned into a wonderland. The boys and girls arrived in cars and buses on Saturday last week-three weeks before Christmas in order to get in ahead of the mid-December rains-for the big event on the sports field...