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...fairy tales, and watched such history-made-easy scripts as Maxwell Anderson's The Trial of Anne Boleyn. In general, the show's filmed offerings have been better than its live productions. Critics gave high marks to Novelist James Agee's five-part scenario dealing with Abraham Lincoln's early years, and to the program's unusual films such as the Danish Palle Alone, which told of a small boy who dreams he is the only person left on earth and ecstatically drives streetcars and fire engines through the empty streets of Copenhagen...
...free enterprisers making the building miracle come to pass are the famed team who gave their name to suburban Levittown on New York's Long Island: brothers William and Alfred and father Abraham Levitt. Says HOUSE & HOME...
...your issue of Nov. 24, reviewing the Ford Foundation's television program, Omnibus, you refer to "the first of a five-part Abraham Lincoln story written by James (The Quiet One) Agee and directed by Documentary Producer Louis de Rochemont." TIME errs. The five parts of Mr. Lincoln were directed by Norman Lloyd. I am the producer of these films. Louis de Rochemont, my brother ... is not connected with the Lincoln series...
...Chicago, the Renaissance Society took over a hall at the University of Chicago, filled it with 439 works by such recognized artists as Rainey Bennett, Abraham Rattner and Milton Avery-everything from bold abstract posters to realistic etchings, watercolor landscapes, and oil paintings. Within the week, 1,000 students, teachers and young married couples, some from as far as 50 miles away, had come to browse around, gone home with 61 first-rate works of art tucked under their arms. Chicago's fedora prices: from $1.50 for a small drawing to $50 for a large work by Yves Tanguy...
...Died. Abraham Howard Feller, 47 New York-born general counsel to the United Nations; in a leap from the window of his twelfth-floor apartment; in Manhattan (see INTERNATIONAL...