Word: blende
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are two reasons for this. Manning, at 43 the nation's youngest Premier, enjoys an unrivaled personal popularity, while his province is enjoying an unprecedented boom. A slight (135 lbs.), teetotaling Baptist, Manning has won a wide following with his special blend of evangelism and politics. Said Edmonton Voter Jim Mclvor: "I'm no church man like the Premier, with his preaching and his radio church hour, but I've got faith in Manning." So, too, have the big oil producers, who approve of Manning's handling of Alberta's rich...
...free access to the outdoors. His aim: simplicity with elegance. "Warmth in luxury," he says, "is easy. But it is full of pitfalls. You can overbalance a house with the furnishings . . . Today's modern furniture is mostly glamorized boxes. Furniture must help balance a home ... It should so blend with the wallpaper and contours of the room that it does not annoy...
Ivanhoe (MGM) makes a rousing medieval horse opera out of Sir Walter Scott's most popular novel.* Set in the chivalric days of Norman-Saxon rivalry in 12th century England, the story is a blend of historical fact and romantic fiction about the Saxon Knight Wilfred of Ivanhoe, who helped King Richard the Lionhearted reclaim the throne usurped by his villainous brother Prince John and the Norman traitors while Richard was away at the Crusades. In the course of his adventures, Ivanhoe also champions the black-eyed Jewess Rebecca, falsely accused by the Norman conspirators of sorcery, and wins...
Your June 9 article on Germany's Kurt Schumacher maintains TIME'S high standards of reporting the international scene. No article has been better presented in its blend of Artzybasheff's cover, the penetrating lead line ("Tiger, Burning Bright"), and factual information on Schumacher's background and present position in Germany...
Lydia Bailey (20th Century-Fox), based on Kenneth Roberts' picaresque novel, is a Technicolor blend of Haitian history and Hollywood horse opera. Dale Robertson is cast as a dashing, mettlesome Baltimore attorney, who not only espouses the cause of Haitian independence against the French, but also gives a helping hand to blonde Lydia Bailey (Anne Francis), a Philadelphia girl who is engaged to evil Napoleonic Agent Charles Korvin. Disguised as a mulatto field hand, Robertson saves Lydia from jungle rot and rotters, guides her past Mirabeau's cutthroat maroons, and through the conflagration of Cap Francois...