Word: harrison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delay at least makes the film more timely. Its hero is an objet d'artful dodger (Rex Harrison) of the sort that stole Goya's Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London (TIME, Sept. 1). With the help of a dumb broad (Rita Hay worth) and a clever painterfeiter (Joseph Wiseman), Rex artnaps a Velásquez from a castle in Spain. But a sinister grandee (Grégoire Aslan) steals it back, and before long bodies are dropping almost as fast as bum mots ("I want so much to be a first-class crook...
...sidewalk outside the theater with a stepladder, climbed to the marquee with a tape measure, and determined precisely the altitude of the letters that spelled his name. When 20th Century-Fox's Cleopatra (now in production) is finally released, Richard Burton will be listed above Rex Harrison. If, however, Harrison should be knighted before then, his name will go above Burton's-but only in Great Britain. Elizabeth Taylor, needless to say, will top them both. But in the past she has made concessions for private reasons. In Butterfield 8, she permitted Eddie Fisher almost equal billing, perhaps...
Knee-Deep in Arts. Opened in 1894, Culver owes its military hue to Founder Henry Harrison Culver, a prosperous St. Louis stovemaker, who for his health roughed it one summer on Lake Maxinkuckee. Culver soon zestfully launched a chautauqua, wound up with a military academy. He aimed to blend liberal and Christian education, using military discipline "because of its peculiar advantage in bringing out the best results in the development of boys...
Other members of the first team were wings Elias Lwowski of Cornell and Bob Power of Yale; insides Ed Harrison of Princeton and Jerry Pepper of Dartmouth; fullbacks Dick Matlack of Princeton and Lou Buck of Penn; and goalie Dave Smoyer of Dartmouth...
...years. The savage Ottawa chief Pontiac successfully took all but two British posts in the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes region; the Shawnees' great Tecumseh envisioned a united Indian nation that would sweep all white men into the seas and died leading his men against General William Henry Harrison near Lake Erie...