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Screen Directors' Playhouse (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC). Burt Lancaster in Rope of Sand.
Last week, 15 years after the death of Charles Demuth, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art got around to giving him a big exhibition. The 168 paintings and drawings on display proved the Lancaster, Pa. tobacconist's boy to have been among the nation's top moderns...
In the exhibition catalogue, Museum Director of Painting and Sculpture Andrew Ritchie collared Demuth with a string of adjectives: "Elegant, witty, frivolous, dandified, shy, gentle, kind, amusing." The painter was also lame, and long ill with the diabetes which killed him at 52. A bit of a bohemian in his...
The second day's run covered seven towns, a mayor's luncheon and open-air speeches in a drizzling rain, but on the third day Violet was up again bright & early to drive more miles. Once during the day, she hoisted herself on an open truck while an...
He bought a string of newspapers, one of which, the Lancaster (Ohio) Eagle-Gazette, he still owns. Today he also has minor interests in an advertising firm, the Churngold (margarine) Corp., American Thermos Bottle, Procter & Gamble, the Reds and the Garden. Besides the Lancaster newspaper, he controls Dayton's...