Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Montanans, who know what hosses look like, are proud of Charles Russell's talent too. Last summer they raised $79,000 by public subscription to build a Russell Museum in Great Falls. Last week, as the climax of another public fund drive, the Montana Historical Society took title to a private collection of Russell paintings valued at $300,000. The estate of Rancher-Broker Malcolm Sutherland Mackay agreed to take $50,000 for the collection, after a drive was launched to keep it in the state. Its destination: the new Russell gallery in Helena's Veterans and Pioneer...
...convention leave of absence from his university presidency to campaign. But most of his 1948 support had shifted to Eisenhower, and Stassen failed to cut an impressive figure at Chicago. The shift of his Minnesota delegation to Ike at the end of the first roll call was the climax of the convention. Stassen, however, got little or no political credit for this move, and his stock was at a low point when the convention ended. He offered his services to the Eisenhower campaign and soon proved exceedingly valuable as a political strategist. As the campaign progressed, Eisenhower's opinion...
...climax finds Belle and her gang holding up the Oklahoma territorial bank. All the bad men are shot full of holes and Belle lies wounded in Brent's arms, secure in the knowledge that he will be waiting for her after she serves her jail sentence. Helping to make this horse opera practically indistinguishable from its numerous predecessors is the presence in the cast of gravel-voiced Andy Devine as a bearded itinerant trader...
...High Treason, the J. Arthur Rank people examine the problem of Communist sabotage in England and conclude that as long as Scotland Yard employs cool, resourceful investigators there is no cause for alarm. It is a solid suspense job which mounts to a fine climax, then closes with a wonderful burst of thin-lipped realism...
Last week the bitter battle came to a climax. Feeling that their continued presence on the faculty was only making matters worse, Dean Brown and his seven followers formally resigned, even though the regents had agreed to re-study their decision. But whatever the regents may decide next June, the Sewanee seminary faces a bleak future. As of the moment-with or without Negroes-it has only one professor left for its 85 students...