Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your Aug. 26 issue, you report the latest gunfire from a man who seems determined to assassinate one of the most brilliant youths in the history of recent art. The man is Georgio de Chirico, living Italian painter; his intended victim is himself as a young...
This long, dull, maddeningly unmotivated story wastes the hard-working actors, famed Director Frank Borzage (Seventh Heaven, Farewell to Arms), the Technicolor, the dressy sets. Only item worth the expense: the brilliant piano playing on the sound track by Artur Rubinstein, who was paid $85,000-a whopping price, even in Hollywood, for a musical background...
Brazilians work brilliant designs with figures. It was the Brazilian plan to stabilize the international coffee market that introduced the word "valorization" to the world in 1906. Today, after 40 years of valorizing, bargaining, spoiling land and burning crops, a few coffee merchants and Government officials are comfortably rich -and 90% of the population is as poor as ever. Millions of tons of coffee lie in warehouses. Thousands of acres of coffee land have been abandoned to armies of ants, to small-scale farms, to be worked by the children of slaves, who have so lost their talent for farming...
...brilliant piece of journalism. The New Yorker's editors had practically stumbled into it. Originally, they planned to print Hersey's report in four articles. Then able, shy co-managing editor Bill Shawn, suggested running the whole thing at once. It took a while to convince Harold Ross, the New Yorker's terrible-tempered editor, a man given to juvenile and profane tantrums, and intuitive, often shrewd judgments. Ross is convinced that everyone on his staff but himself is in danger of going holy. One factor helped decide him: most of the magazine's regular departments...
...York Daily News. For nine years Cartoonist Clarence Daniel Batchelor has drawn a macabre series of traffic don'ts called Inviting the Undertaker. The subject was closer than ever to Publisher Joseph M. Patterson's heart after the Sunday afternoon in 1939 when his brilliant managing editor, Harvey Deuell, suffered a heart attack while driving to work, swerved his car into a cable fence and was killed...