Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eleven episodes of Crusade in Europe that have now been telecast in the U.S. As you know from my Letter in the March 14 issue, the MARCH OF TIME made this documentary film of General Dwight Eisenhower's best-selling book, Crusade in Europe, at the request of 20th Century-Fox, which had bought the television rights from the publishers, Doubleday & Co. It is being telecast in 26 weekly episodes by the American Broadcasting Co., and TIME and LIFE are its sponsors...
House of Strangers (20th Century-Fox) is a richly detailed exploration of a family vendetta in Manhattan's lower East Side. A kind of Mulberry Street version of Joseph and his brethren, it tells the story of Gino Monetti (Edward G. Robinson), an immigrant Italian banker, and his four sons. One of the sons (Richard Conte), a cocky, hard-boiled young lawyer, is his father's favorite. The other three are underpaid, overworked stooges at the old man's bank...
...19th Century it was French painters who created painting, in the beginning of the 20th Century it was Spanish painters who created painting and now towards the middle of the 20th Century it is an Englishman who is creating the important painting of his time...
C.I.O. convention last year Justice Douglas confided: "The human welfare state is the great political invention of the 20th Century." And labor, he added warmly, has been its prime promoter. If some of his colleagues thought his speech a little less than judicial none of them said so in public...
...sounding off on his favorite subject. The sounding board: LIFE'S Round Table on Hollywood. For 2½ days at San Bernardino, Calif., some 100,000 words flew around the table between scholars, actors, technicians, a critic, a moviegoer, and some of the best U.S. moviemaking talent: 20th Century-Fox's Mankiewicz, M-G-M Production Chief Dore Senary, Warner's Jerry Wald, Independents John Huston, Hal B. Wallis and Robert Rossen...