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...Esther Daiton begins her day early--vomiting bile into the toilet outside her Harare shack at 4:30, just before the sun rises. Esther's father Daiton Malinga died of AIDS in April 1997. Her mother Nelia Nefitara died of AIDS in January 1998. Esther's eldest sister, Napiri, died in 1993. The next eldest sister, Martha, died in 1995. Esther is the third sister. She discovered she was HIV-positive only after the birth of her daughter Emmaculate, who was chronically sick and died in 1998, age two. The fifth sister, Elina, died of AIDS last year; the sixth...
...believe in message pictures," Daiton Trumbo said recently, and Johnny Got His Gun, his first film as a di rector, comes heavily stamped and post marked "Urgent." As one of Holly wood's most prominent scenarists (Exodus, Hawaii), Trumbo has always had a tendency to bear down so heavily that he often blunts the points he is la boring so hard to drive home. He does so again in Johnny, which he adapted from his own 1939 antiwar novel...
...just read a news item that said you had obtained a non-commissioned jet airplane for Crossville High School because their football team is called the Jets," began a letter from Ray Daiton, 15, a young Tennessee constituent of Democratic Senator Albert Gore, 55. "Well, Norris High School's basketball team is called the Senators, and I was wondering if you knew where we could find an old Senator just lying around not doing anyone any good. We would like to place him in front of our school. Since Norris is primarily a TVA town, you better send...
Spartacus. Hollywood has taken the old formula of brawn (Kirk Douglas championing Rome's oppressed) and sex (Jean Simmons swimming in the nude) and added both heart and brain. Thanks to Director Stanley Kubrick, Scenarist Daiton Trumbo and Actors Laurence Olivier, Charles Laughton and Peter Ustinov, Spartacus adds up to an impressive piece of moviemaking despite its obeisance to commercialism...
...spring of 1950 Jack K. Daiton, who had served four years with the Army Engineer Corps in Europe and the Pacific, was digging up research for his Master of Arts thesis at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He picked art education as his subject and looked hard for ways to get contemporary material. He hit on one way when he read the TIME cover story on Pablo Picasso and other School of Paris artists (June 26, 1950). Why not, he wondered, ask the leading painters of that group to suggest ideas and sources? He wrote to TIME to explain...