Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maybank was not the last of the Southern aristocrats in the Senate. Virginia's Harry Byrd is still very much alive. And as Burnet Rhett Maybank was buried in Charleston's Magnolia Cemetery last week, South Carolinians could remember how deep the stream of family runs in the low country. At the graveside was Burnet Rhett Maybank Jr., 30, a rising young member of the state legislature...
...President of the Assembly, who for years has appealed more to French emotions than to French intelligence. Bowed under the weight of his 82 years and long illness, he was too feeble to rise and mount the rostrum, but from his bench the "old bear" spoke theatrically in his deep voice. "I have read the documents with anguish," he rumbled. "No one can say that Great Britain is engaged to stand by our side. That alone would be enough to make me reject EDC . . . The treaty does not give France the right to withdraw from the community as it does...
...15th International Film Festival, Italy's Gina Lollobrigida chatted gaily with friends and admirers as she arrived for a showing of her newest film, Woman of Rome. She was dressed to show that, with her, first things come first: her silver evening gown had a deep V neck; a fluffy white-fox fur lightly covered her bare shoulders. When the picture was over, nearly everyone had to admit that it was pretty mediocre, but that Gina, in the part of a tough prostitute, had made mediocrity earthily interesting...
...live." Retorted the New Statesman & Nation, "They are too subtle for the superficial glance. His achievement . . . is his remarkable patience . . . that allows him time to discover his subject's undramatic drama." Art News & Review noted that a "vein of somewhat folky humor persists [but] the greatest quality [is] deep calm, giving a sense of a pastoral order in mankind...
...story of Harry and Davy has been made into a surpassing movie, The Little Kidnappers (J. Arthur Rank; United Artists), directed by Philip Leacock and written by Novelist Neil Paterson (Man on the Tightrope), whose script is a fable as deep-going and sweet-running as any on the children's shelf. The innocence of the children. Jon Whiteley as Harry and Vincent Winter as Davy, pierces the heart like a spring morning, and Duncan Macrae and Jean Anderson are fearfully true to life as the boys' Scottish Calvinist grandparents. The photography, by Eric Cross, fills the background...