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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discipline, and his command of it is athletic-brushmanship like swordsmanship. Wyeth's Cormorants inhabit a small island off the Maine coast, near his summer home. "I rowed over," Wyeth says in his high, dry voice. "There was a terrific shrieking and neck-turning. The picture took only half an hour, but the birds kept dropping on me all the time. There was a strange feeling of aloneness -of the cormorants not wanting you. They kept talking among themselves." In its sparse, swift strokes, the picture conveys that arrogant freedom of the wild and unbeholden...
...them to leave so she could "talk business" with their husbands. Later Esther slid down the Trout hatch in a skirt that swung all eyes to the ladder, forced another costume change (back on land again) that delayed shooting for hours. Finally Esther walked out a day and a half before Producer Saudek was through. Saudek went on without her, praised the Navy's exquisite forebearance. Cracked Omnibus' host, Alistair Cooke: "This has been the noblest chapter in naval history...
...quite liberal enough to ignore her race, refused to endorse her candidacy. But a milk-bottle collection in Houston's Negro districts boosted funds to some $4,000, and Candidate White began a hard campaign. Pointedly, she talked of issues, e.g., Houston schoolchildren pay 4? more a half-pint for lunchtime milk than children in surrounding districts because the hyperconservative school board has refused to accept federal aid. She did not orate for integration. But she visited Negro schools, some of which lack libraries, cafeterias, permanent buildings, reported wryly: "I have found them very separate, but not quite equal...
Conquest (CBS, 5-6 p.m.). Waves, both cranial and oceanic. Half the program consists of film clips from a six-hour job of brain surgery by a team of Johns Hopkins doctors that cured a patient of grand mal epilepsy; the other half describes the toll that the pounding ocean has taken from men, ships and seacoasts...
...couple of untimely 15-yard penalties and a fumbled fumble cost the Crimson football team its chance for a brilliant second-half comeback Saturday. Brown finally nosed out the varsity...