Word: philadelphian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Bill Holland, 40, husky Philadelphian who went from speed skating to auto racing, won this year's 500-mile classic at Indianapolis; and Ruth Dannie Asmussen, 22; in Miami...
Walter Stuempfig is a stoop-shouldered Philadelphian with an unruly little mustache and a worried look. He has less to worry about than most artists, for at 35 Stuempfig is a solid critical and popular success: he has sold out three one-man shows in six years and won a reputation as the foremost young "romantic" painter in the U.S. Stuempfig's latest exhibition, which opened in a Manhattan gallery last week, did nothing to diminish that reputation, but it did raise a question : How romantic...
...years Philadelphia has suffered its Republican city government as it has the water it drank. Both gave off a faint but unpleasant smell, but a true Philadelphian got used to both. This year, after the exposure of graft, extortion and embezzlement in nearly every city office, the smell from City Hall became too much even for torpid Philadelphians...
Died. Thomas Sovereign Gates, 75, onetime Morgan partner, longtime (1930-44) president of the University of Pennsylvania, and chairman of its board of trustees since 1944; in Osterville, Mass. A wealthy Philadelphian, he gave up banking to run his alma mater, without pay, for the sake of "romance and high adventure...
First prize ($2,500) went to one of the few bright spots: a tall, rainbow-colored patchwork of windows against a night sky. It had been painted by an unknown, 34-year-old Philadelphian named Henry Kallem, who submitted it without much expectation of winning a prize. Like last year's prizewinning What Atomic War Will Do to You, Kallem's half-abstract canvas bore a socially conscious title: Country Tenement. Explained Kallem: "My idea was to show how I felt seeing this scene one evening in the country-all the people crowded into one building with...