Word: edwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...originating such outstanding shows as T'ang Dynasty Art (TIME, Jan. 14, 1957), Brown has put Los Angeles back into the big time, has just staged the U.S.'s most comprehensive Degas show in two decades. One of Ric Brown's few misses was the Edward G. Robinson collection. Brown rounded up $2,500,000 to buy it, only to have Greek Shipowner Stavros Niarchos raise the bid to more than $3,000,000 (TIME. March 11, 1957). But under Brown's quarterbacking, new pieces have come pouring in (including Fragonard's Mademoiselle Colombe...
...Died. Edward J. Hill, 65, pioneer balloonist who served as technical adviser to Professor and Mrs. Jean Piccard when they made an ascent to the stratosphere from Dearborn, Mich. (1934); of cancer; in Detroit...
...rises more often to the epic height of its adage and its argument. Epic is plainly what Moviemaker Lichtman hoped to achieve-a sort of Europead elaborated out of the decisive events and determining attitudes of World War II. He missed the mark, but with the assistance of Director Edward Dmytryk and Scriptwriter Edward Anhalt. he has produced a broad and swiftly flowing film which carries on its narrative stream two performances-by Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift -of unusually deep draft...
...Silent, Run Deep (Hecht, Hill, Lancaster; United Artists) runs noisy, runs shallow. But it gives the moviegoer who is in the market for thrills a fairly good run for his money. Based on the 1955 bestseller by Navy Captain Edward L. Beach (at that time President Eisenhower's Navy aide), the film gets under way as Commander Clark Gable, U.S.N.. loses his submarine in Japan's Bungo Strait. Desked in Honolulu, he strikes for another command and sails for revenge. But there is a hitch: the command that Gable gets had previously been ticketed to Lieut. Burt...
...became a songwriter because the "songs of the South ware pinin' to be written"; of bronchial pneumonia; in Manhattan. The son of emancipated slaves. Handy was born in an Alabama log cabin. The Memphis Blues, written in 1909 to abet the first mayoralty campaign of Memphis' Edward H. ("Boss") Crump, started his career in jazz writing. This month, St. Louis Blues, a fictionalized film biography of Handy's life, will be released by Paramount Pictures...