Word: bernardino
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...painters designed scenery for the Nativity dramas, and afterwards labored in their silent studios to preserve the immediacy of the plays in paint. One who succeeded was an obscure master named Bernardino Luini, living in Milan. For such artists as Luini, the birth of Christ was not merely a historical event to be celebrated in its proper season, but .an ever-present reality-as immediate as the birth of one's own son-and so he saw nothing strange in taking it from its temporal context and creating a contemporary Italian Bethlehem. The result was sometimes as stilted-looking...
Vertical, tree-studded slopes are the bane of western skiers from Seattle to San Bernardino along the Pacific side of the Sierras. Further inland, however, the mountain tops rise above the timber line, providing countless open runs for the energetic skier...
Meat & Potatoes. He spent one semester cutting classes at the University of Southern California and dropped out. He gave Florida's tennis-happy Rollins College, which lured him with a scholarship, the same short shrift. He lasted exactly three hours on a potato-sacking job in a San Bernardino (Calif.) grocery store; now he has an elusive connection with a Los Angeles meat-packing firm, but never really works at it. Except for 40 months in the Coast Guard, he has never really worked at anything but tennis...
From the age of 13, when he first decided to be a tennis player (rather than a baseball player), it has been his whole life. First he became champion of San Bernardino's Arrowview Junior High. Then, at 14, he went hunting bigger game, and got his ears pinned back in the first round of a Santa Monica boys' tournament. It was a terrible shock...
Namesake. In Lamesa, Tex., Mrs. Bernardino Lopez gave birth on a Sunday to her 25th child, cudgeled her brains to think of a name, finally got it: Sunday...