Word: davide
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What Damon was to Pythias or David to Jonathan, William Benton was to Chester Bowles. In 1929, four months before the stock-market crash, the two Yalemen (Benton '21, Bowles '24) founded the advertising agency of Benton & Bowles. By 1936, the year Benton sold out to be vice president of the University of Chicago, they had run their billings up to $15 million a year. Bowles hung around until 1941, making more money; then he too gave in to the longing for a larger life of public service, headed up the Connecticut OPA, later became Franklin Roosevelt...
Singers: Sopranos Lucine Amara, Mary Curtis-Verna, Gloria Davy, Leontyne Price, Eleanor Steber; Mezzo-Sopranos Nan Merriman and Regina Resnik; Contralto Jean Madeira; Tenors David Lloyd, Jan Peerce. Richard Tucker; Baritones George London, Robert McFerrin and William Warneld...
...Bridge on the River Kwai. Director David Lean's magnificently ironic adventure story, developed into a tragic exploration of the unmeaning of life; with Alec Guinness, William Holden (TIME...
...last year Photographer David Douglas Duncan showed up at the ornate villa of Pablo Picasso overlooking the Riviera and Cannes. As an offering, Duncan carried a small, 1st century B.C. carved carnelian that he had found on a photographic assignment for LIFE in Afghanistan. The gift opened Picasso's door and his heart, won what Photographer Duncan wanted-months at home with the great artist. As a result, Duncan took more than 10,000 photographs, last week published in The Private World of Pablo Picasso (Harper; $4.95 ; Ridge Press paperback; $1.50) a photographic record of Picasso's private...
Nowhere was the "confusion and complexity" of when, how, why. and if to intervene more strikingly illustrated than in the American diplomatic camp. U.S. Ambassador David R. Francis was an aging (67), old-line Missouri politician with a passion for poker. British Agent Bruce Lockhart recalled that after dinner, "Francis began to fidget like a child who wishes to return to its toys. His rattle, however, was a deck of cards." Ambassador Francis' poker-faced response to the Russian enigma was to hole up 250 miles north of Moscow in the town of Vologda, where he received garbled telegraphic...