Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Length of biblical (and British) cubit: 18 inches. David's Goliath towered six cubits and a span...
Great Expectations. A fine Dickens story, brought vividly to the screen by Britain's Director David Lean & colleagues (TIME...
...Died. David Ignatius Walsh, 74, hulking Massachusetts politician, longtime favorite of Boston Irish-Catholic Democrats, who kept him in the U.S. Senate for 26 years, twice elected him Governor; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Boston. A violent Anglophobe (he was known to Capitol Hill wags as "Ireland's Senator"), Isolationist Walsh finally lost his Senate seat in 1946 to Henry Cabot Lodge...
There were too many horrible examples of money-losing pictures. Despite Ginger Rogers, Universal -International's The Magnificent Doll was having trouble getting into some first-run theaters. Only blitz tactics by razor-sharp David O. Selznick saved his Duel in the Sun from losing the box-office battle. To combat the panning of Duel by critics, Selznick shrewdly ran Duel simultaneously in several theaters in selected cities. Thus he cashed in before adverse comment could get around. Hollywood guessed that Duel's box-office gross is over $7,000,000, half of what Selznick needs to break...
Undergraduate recipients of the Fellowship were: David G. Gill '46, a graduate magna cum laude in economics; Henry B. Helson '47, a graduate summa cum laude in mathematics; and Truman O. Woodruff '46, a graduate summa cum laude in physics...