Word: shadows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was only one small shadow in all that dazzle to blight her joy. Sometime during the ceremonies Eugénie's pet turtle La Reine wandered off in the general direction of the pyramids. It was not found again until after the Empress had left for France...
Braque's Painter and Model (1939) was a more ambitious essay in shadow and substance. The black and tan model and black and grey artist-who, unlike clean-shaven, square-cut Braque, sported a spade beard and cheroot-both wavered in uncertain silhouette against the grey and yellow wallpaper. At one moment the figures seemed thin as cardboard; at another they became block-solid...
Ford Theater (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS). Shadow of a Doubt, with Gregory Peck...
...blood-he strides ahead, and under the thunder of his steps the globe trembles from East to West. This is the red god. The Seine shudders at his impact, and tries to break its banks. Westminster trembles before him like Jericho, and across the green ocean his red shadow falls on the walls of the White House. Hosanna...
...from Chicago's Quigley Preparatory Seminary. The late Coach George Keogan of Notre Dame looked him over as a basketball prospect, but decided that he was too awkward. He decided on a pre-law course at Chicago's De Paul University. There, Coach Ray Meyer made him shadow-box and skip rope until Mikan panted: "What do you want, Coach, my blood?" Short, husky Coach Meyer is still hard to satisfy. Says he of Mikan: "He'd be great if he were nine inches smaller." His size sets Mike apart, even among pro basketball players. At home...