Word: admirerers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nivola's first exhibit of his new sand castings failed to sell. But France's famed Architect Le Corbusier, then in Manhattan working on the U.N. Secretariat, visited Nivola's studio and became an enthusiastic admirer of Nivola's work. Said Le Corbusier: "A clean-cut...
The plot itself is lucid. In late nineteenth century Paris a general, his wife, the Countess, and her admirer affably intrigue. A pair of diamond earrings, which precipitates every crisis among them, exchanges hands constantly. Each gentleman strives to impress the Countess, either by giving them to her or by...
The actors are obviously to blame, yet they are only partly responsible; they have played as directed. Charles Boyer is a general who better resembles a priest. His deliberateness makes him dispirited in a part which calls for shrewdness. Seeing his wife off on a train, his rapt expression conveys...
After gold and silver were discovered in California, Telegraph Tycoon J.W. Mackay brought in three tons of silver from the Comstock lode and had Tiffany's make it into 1,000 pieces of table silver. One day President Lincoln dropped in to pick up a strand of pearls for...
Where the old Tammany used to pass around food baskets and coal buckets, De Sapio's Tammany makes public-minded donations to blood banks. Where the old bosses packed the City Hall with hoodlums and hacks, De Sapio helps to find good men-Tammany men, that is-to work...