Word: rainbow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the war, when fishermen were scarce, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service went on stocking lakes and streams with its usual 7,000,000,000 fish and fish eggs a year. State hatcheries fed them on horse meat and liver (rainbow trout got an extra pinch of paprika for coloring). After four years, a fine fish crop was ready & waiting. Only drawback: a shortage of fishing tackle...
...picture most gallerygoers liked best was Beckmann's monumental triptych Acrobats, a highflying, three-ring circus fantasy wild enough to outclass even Ringling Bros. He had splashed on colors with the lavish hand of a man who wakes up to find a rainbow in his pocket. And he made each color count...
...Such a rainbow's-end prospect was offered last week to Britons, who have long suffered from an inadequate health system. Health Minister Aneurin Bevan planked down before Parliament his long-expected National Health Service Bill, which promises care for every man, woman & child from womb to tomb-to start...
Fortnight ago, before an assemblage of publishers and authors in Manhattan's Rainbow Room, Robert de Graff, president of Pocket Books, presented Gertrudes to Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee) for New Adventures of Ellery Queen, to Dashiell Hammett for The Thin Man, to Thorne Smith posthumously (the prize was accepted by his two daughters) for Topper, to Max Brand posthumously for Singing Guns (a western), to Damon Runyon for Best of Damon Runyon and Damon Runyon's Favorites, and to Shirley Cunningham for The Pocket Entertainer (popular with troops...
This time it was an estimated $15,000,000 worth of art from the onetime Austrian royal family's collection. The famed U.S. Rainbow Division uncovered the cache last week in a cellar at Saint Johann, Austria. Some of the contents: five major Rembrandts, including the great Large Self Portrait; Pieter Broeughael's rousing Peasant Dance and his terrifying Tower of Babel; Velasquez' portrait of the Infanta Maria Margarita; Rubens' Saint Jerome. The Nazi custodian of this treasure, one Major Fabian, had a request to make: for "taking such good care of the collection" didn...