Word: edmunds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bureau in Moscow. Norton will enlarge the U.S. Moscow press corps to a dozen, including three for the A.P., two for U.P., and one each for I.N.S., New York Times, New York Herald Tribune, NBC and CBS. Also due in Moscow this week is Look's Edmund Stevens, 45, who will still appear occasionally in the Christian Science Monitor...
...streets, and the picture tells how his worth overcame his birth. Put to the pits by a greedy master (Jeff Richards), Wildfire fights his way to the championship of the Bowery before he is overmatched with a bigger dog, and left on the floor half dead. A kindly groom (Edmund Gwenn) takes him home to a rich man's stables, and thereafter, in due process of fate, the wharf rat whips his haughty old man at the big dog show, redeems his poor old mother from poverty and disgrace, and finds romance with the richest female in town...
...eloquent passage, Sargent's friend Edmund Gosse gives one possible reason. Sargent, says Gosse, "thought that the artist ought to know nothing whatever about the nature of the object before him . . . but should concentrate all his powers on a representation of its appearance. The picture was to be a consistent vision, a reproduction of the area filled by the eye. Hence, in a very curious way, the aspect of a substance became much more real to him than the substance itself...
Soon off to reconnoiter the antarctic for an expedition he will lead there, New Zealand's strapping Sir Edmund Hillary, co-conqueror of Mount Everest, bounced his son Peter on his knee, showed the lad a brogue the size of Noah's ark. Explained Sir Edmund: "The British expedition is supplying us with boots, but I've got such big feet that I don't trust them to have my size, so I'm taking...
...talk about, the one who went broke going to the wars and who died intestate, without visitors, in a Home. But now the belated floral tributes of highbrow attention have begun to come in. T. S. Eliot has written an introduction to a selection of his verse, and Edmund Wilson wrote a famous essay in which he proved that Kipling waved the flag because of something nasty he saw in the woodshed. Kipling's latest and best biographer, British Author C. E. Carrington, mildly remarks of his subject that "to this day he makes men lose their tempers...