Word: epical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Czarist Parallel. Few historians are better equipped to tell this story than Briton Arthur Bryant. In two previous books (The Years of Endurance, Years of Victory), he covered the decades 1793-1812 with the grasp of a Gibbon, the imagination of an epic novelist. The Age of Elegance is the last of a trilogy and, if anything, more readable than the others...
...highest U.S. group award, to Sergeant Major Thomas Blackford, C Company, representing the 1st Battalion of the Gloucesters (see cut). Said the citation: "By holding their positions and fighting fiercely above & beyond the call of duty, this magnificent battalion was surrounded and cut off by overwhelming Chinese forces. . . . Their epic stand will go down as one of the most valiant in modern times...
This week, as Peggy faced the cameras in her first part in a new Katzman epic, Jungle Safari, her discoverer declared himself more than satisfied. "She has a wonderfully expressive face," he reported proudly. "She will be a big star." Her human fellow actors were already, complaining that the "damned ape" was stealing all the scenes...
...Mexico City, audiences cheered the first collaboration of three of Mexico's most gifted sons: Composer Carlos Chávez, Painter Miguel Covarrubias and Dancer José Limón. Their epic ballet, Los Cuatro Soles (The Four Suns), was the brilliant opener of a three-week national dance festival...
...Hours is a tense melodrama at the Astor, Times Square, about a man on the edge of a tall building wondering when to jump. The Capitol, Broadway and 51st presents a new Rudyard Kipling all-star epic, Soldiers Three, with Stewart Granger, Walter Pidgeon, David Niven, and Robert Newton. Teresa gets its world premiere Thursday at the 52nd Street and Madison. Tans-Lux replacing, the British thriller, Seven Days to Noon...