Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sing Sing (TIME, Oct. 12). As a result, Dewey asked Wicks to resign. Wicks offered to "let the Senate pass upon my fitness." In its zeal, the J-A was also slightly embarrassed. Among the stockholders of the Yonkers track was the paper's own sports columnist, Lewis Burton, who doubled as the track's publicity man. Burton was promptly dropped by the JA, and Manhattan newspapermen gossiped that other sportswriters were also on track payrolls...
Like its Hollywood predecessors, The Robe translates a simple Biblical theme into extravaganza. It tells the story of Marcellus Gallio, the man who executed Christ, and of his eventual conversion to Christianity. Gallio, expertly played by Richard Burton, wins Christ's robe in a dice game beneath the Cross. He sees the robe first as a symbol of his own fear, later as the means to his salvation...
...announced, Brownell had a list of six final prospects. Then Supreme Court Associate Justice Robert Jackson was dropped from the list because, among other things, he had been a left-of-center Democrat and an ardent supporter of Franklin Roosevelt's Supreme Court packing plan. Associate Justice Harold Burton, the only Republican on the court but not its senior member, was eliminated because jumping him over the others might have started a new round of bickering among the Justices. Federal Circuit Judges Orie L. Phillips of Colorado and John J. Parker of Virginia were considered too old-both will...
...Robe. The first CinemaScope film, a colorful, breathtakingly big production of early Christians in ancient Rome. Based on Lloyd C. Douglas' 1942 bestseller, starring Richard Burton, Victor Mature and Jean Simmons (TIME, Sept...
...Robe. The first CinemaScope film, a colorful, breathtakingly big production of Early Christians in Ancient Rome. Based on Lloyd C. Douglas' 1942 bestseller, starring Richard Burton, Victor Mature, Jean Simmons (TIME, Sept...