Word: davids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...classic Rip Van Winkle, which Wyeth illustrated for David McKay Co. in 1921, moved him to greatness. Wyeth's paintings of young, virile Rip retreating from his termagant wife to spend a day in the hills (opposite), and of old Rip's return after a 20-year sleep of enchantment to find his house silent and deserted (see overleaf), are as classic as the story. They have nothing in common with the works of the great French illustrator Gustave Dore, or with the Englishmen Cruikshank and Tenniel, except genius. In the U.S., no other illustrator ever achieved such...
...parted with a fortune in paintings to complete a divorce settlement, was on the telephone from Montreal (where he is touring in The Middle of the Night), picked up Derain's Vase of Flowers for $5,500, Georges Braque's The Sausage for $12,000. ¶ Mrs. David Rockefeller went $11,000 over estimates to buy Paul Signac's pointillist Beach Scene, St. Brieuc...
...David O. Selznick's version of Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, starring Rock Hudson as the World War 1 American ambulance driver working with the Italian army, Jennifer Jones as Catherine, the English nurse, and Vittorio DeSica as an Italian army officer. ¶ Director David Lean's eye-filling The Bridge on the River Kwai, the story of a British officer (beautifully played by versatile Alec Guinness, ably supported by William Holden and Jack Hawkins) who builds a bridge for his Japanese captors, to restore his fellow prisoners' self-respect, then helps destroy...
Larry E. Reeder '59 and David L. Bynum '59 represented the affirmative; arguing on the negative side were James L. Kincaid '58, president of the Council, and John M. Ferrem...
Discussing publicity for '"Tis Pity She's a Whore," John Ford's drama of incest, the club's former president, David E. Green '58 noted that there might be objections in Cambridge to the last word of the title. He said that the Cambridge Trust Company has refused to display an advertisement for the production in their windows...