Word: dix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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PITY OF GOD-Beulah Marie Dix-Viking...
...wires of that pilot's plane. At this point, the esprit de corps of the stunt flyers*?three pilots who belonged to the same unit in France?reasserts itself. One (Robert Armstrong) against whom the director has no grudge, takes off in the damaged plane. The one (Richard Dix) whom the director hoped to kill, follows him in a sound machine. The third (Joel McCrea) stays on the ground, threatening the director with firearms...
...influence of Geoffrey Tory. A large number of books shown are French. Among the most interesting may be mentioned "Entree ... Henri II ... en la ville ... de Paris", Paris, 1549, containing a fine equestrian portrait by Jean Goujon; Aesop, "Les Fables", Paris, 1542, a unique first edition; Homer, Les Dix Premiers Livres de I'lliade", Paris, 1545; Ovid, La Metamorphose, Lyons, 1557 with woodcuts by "Le Petit Bernard"; and Geoffrey Tory's Aediloquium, Paris, 1530, illustrated by the author. Holbein's Old Testament and Dance of Death, although the work of a German artist, were printed on French soil...
...make it imperative that the whole format be altered. Bold-face headlines by Hearst, brilliant quips by the staff of Time and of the New Yorker, light talks by Bruce Barton, and sketches by Peter Arno would all help put the "Record" on the newsstands. And finally a Dorothy Dix column would minister to the heart of gold that beats beneath the rough senatorial exterior...
ARTHUR H. Dix Manager Reader Service Dept...