Word: hurs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book thus touted is Manuel Komroff's In the Years of Our Lord (Harper; $2.50), a new novel about the life of Christ to add to the brief fiction shelf which includes Lew Wallace's Ben Hur (over 2,000,000 copies since 1880), George Moore's pale The Brook Kerith (1916), Bruce Barton's Rotarian The Man Nobody Knows (1925) and Sholem Asch's lush The Nazarene (1939). (Some would include Kenan's famed Vie de Jesus...
...Hur, by Elpha Anita Ellington, produced on Mutual's Command Performance series. From Lew Wallace via Hollywood, with inspirational dialogue...
Proud of its title of the "Hoosier Athens" is Crawfordsville, Ind. (pop. 10,000), home of the late great Best-Seller General Lew Wallace (Ben Hur). Crawfords ville's biggest office building-five stories-is owned by Ben Hur Life Association. The town's prettiest buildings are on the campus of Wabash College. Two or three times a year, one of these buildings, a prim chapel seating 1,100 people, becomes Crawfordsville's concert hall. There last fortnight, Crawfordsville culture glowed at its brightest. In the chapel 650 townsfolk heard the season's second and final...
...risk-laden as coins in a slot machine are Hollywood's top-budget pictures. Occasionally one hits the jackpot. Birth of a Nation hit it for the industry's all-time box-office gross: over $15,000,000 (in 25 years). Big Parade, Ben Hur hit it for over $10,000,000 each. Snow White hit it for better than $8,000,000 to date, is still going strong. But no picture ever grossed so much in so short a time as Gone With the Wind...