Word: elephantic
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By the 20th century, when popular taste had long since caught up and the value of a Rembrandt oil soared to the million-dollar mark, American artists like John Sloan pored over his etchings for inspiration. Russian-born Chaim Soutine sat entranced through a whole day before Rembrandt's...
Back home in Cumberland, Maine's cigar-chomping ex-Republican Governor Horace Hildreth, now U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, amiably tried to bulldoze a baby elephant, flown to the U.S. as a gift from some of Hildreth's Pakistani admirers. If Amateur Mahout Hildreth can polish up by August...
Like most Chayefsky plots, the story of Affair is thin. Debbie Reynolds and her schoolteacher beau (Rod Taylor) plan a quiet, quick marriage in order to take advantage of a free auto trip to California for their honeymoon. Her careworn parents (Bette Davis and Ernest Borgnine) agree-until the neighbor...
Elephant Problems. The lone big-time survivor, Ringling Bros., last week said that business in Manhattan and Boston so far this year is down only 7% to 11% from record 1955, predicted that 1956 would be the fourth best year in its history. Ringling has valiantly tried to slash costs...
But Ringling faces elephant-size problems. In the past year close to 100 top staffers have been fired or quit in protest against John Ringling North's management shakeup and attempts to "Hollywoodize" the show. Recently union contract negotiations broke down before the Madison Square Garden opening; Ringling has...