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...Dedicated Gentleman...
...West Germany, The Netherlands and Brazil. 20TH CENTURY-FOX, second biggest U.S. moviemaker, is moving solidly into television's camp. For $30 million, Fox has given National Telefilm Associates rights to distribute 390 of Fox's best-known pre-1948 films (Laura, The Razor's Edge, Gentleman's Agreement, etc.) over network of 112 U.S. TV stations. In addition, Fox gets 50% interest in Telefilm's film network. Deal assures Fox nationwide distribution for its properties, e.g., Mr. Belvedere, which could be converted into TV films...
...House superintendent calls him "a gentleman, in every sense of the word;" a colleague feels he gives "probably this country's best graduate training in continental medieval history;" an immaculate student is shocked to see him gardening in the very oldest of clothes; an injured house athlete finds him the first to arrive at his side; a house secretary notes that he mixes "a darn good martini;" and a Harvard administrator partially explains the above by adding that "he is a truly kind human being, with a deep personal interest in people...
Stevenson at Yale Sir: I wonder if you can identify the elderly lady and gentleman who appear in the photograph depicting Yale students heckling Stevenson [Oct. 15]? The contrast between the couple's mature demeanor and the yakking, jackal-hyena-like appearance of the Yale students is astounding...
...sisters' needlework that first attracted John Trumbull to art. His father found the attraction inappropriate on two counts: first, young John had lost the use of one eye in a childhood accident, and second, he was a gentleman. Picturemaking, for the handsome son of the governor of Connecticut, was unthinkable. Accordingly, odd John was packed off to Harvard for polishing. There, however, he called on the greatest of American portraitists, John Singleton Copley, and painted and copied all the pictures he could. He was one of the first male American aristocrats to take brush in hand (Copley came from...