Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles County grand jury last week landed the first solid blow on the peeping eye of Confidential's Publisher Robert Harrison. Harrison, already beset by $28.5 million in libel suits, and ten confederates were indicted on charges of conspiracy to publish criminal libel, to distribute lewd and obscene material and to disseminate illegal information about abortions and male rejuvenation. As California Assistant Attorney General Clarence Linn said, perhaps optimistically: "In my opinion, Confidential is finished...
Picasso's cubism radically affected the course of modern art, but it is now clear that it failed to establish itself as the Grand Manner of the 20th century. As an apparatus to carry the full weight of modern man's deepened and often troubled sensibility, it has proved inadequate. Picasso himself, no man to cultivate the hinterland after exploring a new area's boundaries, pushed on, leaving a generation of less gifted painters to work laboriously through its implications...
Died. Erich von Stroheim, 71, oldtime bullet-headed movie menace (Grand Illusion, Five Graves to Cairo) and pioneer writer-director of realistic films (Blind Husbands, 1919; Foolish Wives, 1922; Greed, 1925); of cancer; in his villa at Maurepas, outside Paris. After seven years as an officer in the Austrian cavalry, Vienna-born Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria Stroheim von Nordenwall came to the U.S. in 1909, drifted to Hollywood (1912) and, with his Prussian strut, cropped head and monocle, lodged firmly in the public mind (viz. D. W. Griffith's Hearts of the World) during World...
Born. To Princess Josephine Charlotte, 29, sister of King Baudouin of Belgium, and Prince Jean, 36, heir apparent to his mother, Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg: twins, their second son and second daughter; in Betzdorf Castle, Luxembourg. Names: Jean Felix Marie Guillaume, Margaretha Antonia Marie Felicite. Weight: each...
...Merrie England. Although Lucky Jim took the Somerset Maugham Award, the grand "Old Party" of British letters loosed a choleric blast at the "whitecollar proletariat." Said old (83) Somerset Maugham: "They do not go to the university to acquire culture, but to get a job, and when they have got one. scamp it ... Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are scum...