Word: gun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Character Witness. In Miami, five days after he fled from his job in a Hamilton, Ont. shoe store with the contents of the cash register, Robert Happy, 17, strolled into a specialty shop to buy a gun, blandly flashed his shoe-store identification card, was arrested as soon as the identification was checked with his former boss...
Army tanks, trucks and armored cars rumbled into downtown Rio one afternoon last week; they dutifully halted at red traffic lights, then rolled on to carry out their orders. Some 600 men armed with rifles, bazookas and machine guns surrounded the Presidential Palace. A housewife on her way to market glanced at a cluster of soldiers manning a field gun, then turned to a bystander and asked quite matter-of-factly: "What, another coup...
...years befriended all three painters, today owns 500 modern Mexican works worth $2,000,-000. Says Collector Carillo: "In Mexico we seem to have reached our last artistic peak in the late '403." For him both Siqueiros and Rivera in recent years have become "paintbrush and spray-gun pamphleteers." With only Indian-born Rufino Tamayo, 55, whose warm, semi-abstract paintings make him a big prizewinner outside Mexico, now strong enough to challenge the hold of the Big Three, Dr. Carillo still keeps Orozco at the top of his list as "the finest of all Mexican contemporary artists...
...auctions must be willing to pay up to $25.000 for a painting. When the really big collectors decide to show their hands, the price can go over the $100.000 mark, as it did when France's Mme. Jean Walter paid $113.000 to outbid Swiss Gun Manufacturer Emil Buhrle for a Cezanne still life, Pommes et Biscuits, at the 1952 Gabriel Cognacq sale in Paris...
...with the Gun (Goldwyn Jr.; United Artists) has all the splendid cardboard heroics of the classic western. Sheridan City is so terrorized by a villainous rancher named Dade Holman that the panicky citizens hire flint-eyed, flint-faced Robert Mitchum to civilize the community. Inside of ten minutes, four of Holman's badmen are being measured for coffins. Casually holstering his guns, Town-Tamer Mitchum suggests burying at least two of them out on the wild prairie, because "Sheridan City's too small to have such a big cemetery...