Word: amon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last year Silliman Jr. died of a heart attack at 36, and five months ago, his younger brother, Amon Carter Evans, 29, came in as boss. Named after the late Amon Carter, Texas booster and sulphurous publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, young Amon had shown early flashes of the same punch that Pop learned as a cub reporter on the Star-Telegram. A vice president at 21, Amon preferred chasing police cars to issuing executive commands; once he threatened to break a chair over Seigenthaler's head when assigned to yet another park-concert story...
Joan of the Angels? (Film Polski; Telepix) is a beautiful, full-bodied young woman possessed by eight demons. Almost proudly, she rattles off their names-Balaam, Isacaaron, Behemoth, Gressil, Dog's Tail, Amon, Leviathan, and Asmodeus, demon of lust. Asmodeus, of course, possesses many women. But Joan (Lucyna Winnicka) is no common wench: she is the mother superior in a Roman Catholic convent of Ursuline nuns...
...Amon G. Carter of Fort Worth was born too late to be a pioneer, but he more than made up for this slip-up on the part of fate. Starting out as a boardinghouse dishwasher at twelve, he ended up as the publisher of the Fort Worth Star Telegram, a multimillionaire in oil, and, by the time he died in 1955, the man most responsible for turning Fort Worth into the city it is. There was so much to Carter's rambunctious, blustering, big-hearted career that one aspect of it tended to be overshadowed: Carter...
...tapered columns on the front portico go back to the Greek stoas and the Renaissance loggias that looked down upon Mediterranean plazas. The Great Hall is severe but rich, and Johnson's elegance manages to shelter whooping cowpunchers and bucking broncos without dampening their bronze spirits. The Amon Carter Museum of Western Art is meant to display the Old West, not to tame...
...would have been unfortunate had this been otherwise, for by temperament Amon Carter was out of the Old West himself. His collecting began one day in 1928 when a Manhattan art dealer showed him six watercolors and an oil by Russell that reminded Carter of the Texas of his boyhood. Though he was not yet rich, he promptly wrote a $7,500 note, paid it in installments over the next two years...