Word: franked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beloved Infidel, Graham and Frank...
...possibilities for further desecration, as Miss Alderley envisioned them, were endless: Frank Sinatra as the defendant in Trial by Jury, charged with stealing a pizza pie; The Gondoliers remade into The Road to Venice, with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. It was even suggested to Dorothy Alderley that Elvis Presley might play Nanki-Poo. Snapped she: "I'd Nanki-Poo him if I could get my hands...
...puckish ways, Maybeck was one of the truly great originals of U.S. architecture. At the turn of the century, along with Frank Lloyd Wright (seven years Maybeck's junior) and a few others, he pioneered the beginnings of a native U.S. architecture. Maybeck not only introduced California redwood as an artistic building material, but insisted that wood and stone alike be left natural. Like Wright, Maybeck broke up living spaces, combined dining and living areas, opened up the house to the outdoors, incorporated whole walls of glass into his buildings. Last week the California Palace of the Legion...
Died. Catherine Tobin Wright, 87, first wife of Patriarchitect Frank Lloyd Wright, mother of his first six children, including California Architect John Lloyd Wright, author of My Father Who Is On Earth, and Mrs. Catherine Baxter, mother of Cinemactress Anne Baxter; in Santa Monica, Calif. "Young husband-to-be just twenty-one, the young wife-to-be not yet eighteen," wrote Frank Lloyd Wright in the split-level prose of his autobiography. "Wedding [1890] on a rainy day. More resembled a funeral. The sentimentality I was learning to dread came into full flower. The heavens weeping out of doors...
...Diary of Anne Frank. Director George Stevens, with a hatful of triumphs already to his credit, goes over the brim with a flawless and massive epic of the Dutch Jewish girl and her family in hiding during World War II. Newcomer Millie Perkins, who resembles a younger Elizabeth Taylor, is almost all anyone could ask as Anne...