Word: young
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...struggling young artist, Mexico's Escuela Universitaria de Bellas Artes had a good deal to offer. Housed in an ancient convent in the sunny, spired old town of San Miguel de Allende, 150 miles northwest of Mexico City, its cheap, comfortable living and picturesque setting got it wide publicity as a G.I. students' paradise (TIME, March 29, 1948). Over 100 U.S. veterans have flocked south to enroll. But during the past year, San Miguel's sleepy decorum has been shattered by one ruckus after another. Last week the school had more trouble than it could handle...
...guests at a garden party at Buckingham Palace. In a busy week, he also found time to lend his approval to the engagement of his nephew, 26-year-old George Henry Hubert Lascelles, seventh Earl of Harewood, to dark-haired, Austrian-born Pianist Marion Stein, 22. Young Harewood, opera critic for the New Statesman and Nation and a potential heir to the throne (eleventh in line), was so far from kingship that nobody worried much about his marrying a com moner. Last week Miss Stein, a gypsy-faced, beauty whose father works for Boosey & Hawkes, Ltd., music publishers, was meeting...
...fatal ratification" of the North Atlantic pact, the arch-isolationist Chicago Tribune (circ. 957,000) still found one ray of sunshine last week. Cried the Trib: there is now, in Washington, "an outpost of American principles . . . better provisioned, better sited and no less valiantly defended, we hope, than young George Washington's Fort Necessity."* What Trib Publisher Bertie McCormick meant was that he had just bought the Washington Times-Herald (circ. 278,000) from the seven "faithful employees" to whom his cousin, the late Eleanor Medill (Cissy) Patterson, had bequeathed it a year ago (TIME...
...weeks, Washington gossips had been telling one another that the capital's biggest and gaudiest newspaper would soon change hands; they had identified the buyers as everybody from young Bill Hearst and young Tommy Stern (who bought the New Orleans Item last fortnight) to the Washington Post's Eugene Meyer. Hardly anybody had suspected that it would be Bertie...
...exceptions-new models, as it were-which caused somewhat the same sensation as if Citroen had brought out a futuristic Kiddie Kar. They were eleven paintings which came straight from the nursery of the villa at Vallauris, where 6y-year-old Picasso and Franchise Gillot, his handsome young mistress, live with their two children, Claude (two) and Paloma (five months...