Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Black Orpheus (French). Director Marcel Camus (no kin to Novelist-Playwright Albert) has fashioned an impressive, poetic film from an adaptation of the Orpheus legend. The unknown Negro cast, the graceful transformation of the original, and the breathtaking image presented of life as a tropical carnival earned it the 1959 Grand Prix at Cannes...
Piel was right, but his theory was four years in the proof. To stay abreast of fast-breaking scientific research, he commissioned authoritative reports from men at the frontiers of discovery: Physicist I. I. Rabi, Geneticist George W. Beadle, the late Dr. Albert Einstein and 15 other Nobel prizewinners. The magazine was redesigned to offer a rich reading diet of articles on all the leading science disciplines: the physical, social, technical, medical and life sciences. Scientific American blossomed with graphic color so compelling that a portfolio of illustrations has sold more than 7,000 copies...
Black Orpheus (French). Director Marcel Camus (no kin to Novelist-Playwright Albert) has fashioned an impressive, wildly poetic film from a Brazilian poet's adaptation of the Orpheus legend. The unknown but graceful cast, and the breathtaking image presented of Negro life during a tropical carnival earned it the 1959 Grand Prix at Cannes...
...brilliant intellectual (Mortimer Adler) appears just ahead of a retired madam (Polly Adler); the Dalai Lama flanks Dagmar. Henry Ford II shares a page with Tennessee Ernie Ford; Dr. Albert Schweitzer mingles on page 675 with Cleveland Indian Pitcher Herb Score. What brings these unlikely companions together is the new International Celebrity Register ($26), by Society Scribe Cleveland Amory (The Proper Bostonians, The Last Resorts...
...Died. Albert Joseph Engel, 71, onetime (1935-50) Republican Congressman from Michigan who specialized in ferreting out waste of the taxpayers' money, became the terror of free-spending bureaucrats and servicemen; from injuries suffered in a traffic accident; in Grand Rapids, Mich. Dogged, chunky Al Engel was forever going off on solitary investigations, once (1943) covered 48 war plants in 44 days by driving day and night, found that plant profits were often exorbitant. In his lifelong pursuit of facts, he uncovered some strange ones, e.g., a striptease show produced at intervals by the Baltimore Social Security Board. Occasionally...