Word: fame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Walter Williams, 117 by his own reckoning, and the last living veteran of the Civil War, with a story of a career as a Confederate foragemaster; in Houston. Recent investigations have indicated that Hero Williams was only five years old when war broke out, but his fame is secure : President Eisenhower, pursuant to a July act of Congress, declared a day of national mourning, and Fourth Army units will lead a parade to Franklin, Texas, where Williams will be buried with full military honors...
LUCIUS CLAY does not rest on his fame or his contacts (Continental has little Government business) to earn his $150,000 yearly salary. "Does he run the company?" asks a Continental executive. "I'll say he does. Not just 100% - about 106%." Clay has a photographic memory that enables him to keep track of minute details, often confounds others with his knowledge. He is a relentlessly driving executive who needs little sleep, maintains iron discipline, is never wholly satisfied with the performance of his subordinates (all of whom address him as "general"). Says an old friend: "He is still...
...networks would consider downright disdain. Instead of turning over its programing to packagers, CBC puts together its own schedule, then sells ads under the same conditions as newspapers and magazines, confining commercials to seven minutes an hour. It pipes in some U.S. network shows (Hallmark Hall of Fame, Ed Sullivan Show, River boat) that blend suitably with its schedule, selling the advertising time to Canadian firms. CBS produces almost all the rest of its shows, and with two exceptions-Ford Startime (half of its programs are imported, half produced for Ford of Canada by CBC) and the CBC-produced General...
Since World War II, British sculptors have gained more fame as a group than all of their forerunners put together. Their grand old man is Henry Moore (TIME, Sept. 21), but other stars of the movement are still in their 20s and 30s. Among the youngest and newest to fame are two modelers of heavily textured, postsurrealist, gloomily playful figures: Eduardo Paolozzi, 35, and Elisabeth Frink...
...Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 5:30-6:30 p.m.). A seasonal variety program stars Walter Slezak in Ludwig Bemelmans' The Borrowed Christmas; Judith Anderson narrates the Nativity passages from St. Matthew and St. Luke; Dick Button skates; Germany's Obernkirchen Children's Choir sings Christmas carols.Color...