Word: knights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Malraux story was written by Associate Editor A. T. Baker. The portrait was painted by Russian born, Brooklyn-reared Ben Shahn. It is the second work by a new cover artist to appear on TIME in the last few months; Aaron Bohrod did the Governor Knight cover for the May 30 issue. Shahn, who started out as a lithographer, first won success with his series of beautiful but bitter watercolors protesting the 1927 execution of the anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti. As a young "social realist," he had a reputation for proletarian-protest painting; but a 25-year retrospective showing...
Music '55 (Tues. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Stan Kenton and orchestra, abetted by Gloria De Haven, the Four Freshmen, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Marie Knight...
Climax (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Wild Stallion, adapted from William Faulkner's short story, Knight's Gambit, starring Paul Henreid, Mary Astor, Evelyn Keyes...
...have cheated the U.S. male (a serious offense), and you have done an injustice to two good-looking gals (an even graver offense): your cover partly obscured the faces of California Governor Knight's two charming daughters, Carolyn and Marilyn ... I think you should run a much better picture of these two young ladies . . . HENRY J. MEREDITH Captain, U.S.A.F. Mather Air Force Base California
Wicked Swish. The first number was from a century-old skit called The Three Encounters, in which a suspicious innkeeper crept into a knight's room at night, determined to kill him. What followed turned into a riotous pantomime. The two men groped toward each other as if they were in inky darkness, making fearful swipes with enormous, curved swords. The antagonists' darted, pivoted and leaped over each other while the reedy tones of a Chinese fiddle underlined the wicked swish of a snickersnee, and the soft boom of a gong gave sound to the sensation of naked...