Word: lea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brave Bulls (Columbia) is Producer-Director Robert (All the King's Men) Rossen's ambitious attempt to put Tom Lea's bestselling 1949 novel on the screen. Visually, the picture is thick with the hot, dusty atmosphere of the bull ring and the Mexican locale in which it nourishes. But beneath its colorful surface, the film is dramatically weak and confused...
...crucial at the story's climax, when the jittery matador, scorned by the crowd, betrayed by his manager (Anthony Quinn) and his girl (Miroslava), suddenly sheds his fear and calmly faces death. Coming after the defeated, bitter tone of the picture up to that point, and without Novelist Lea's introspective motivation or an adequate dramatic substitute, the climactic scene seems arbitrary and pointless...
...research director in 1941, where he developed numerous new products, including the insulating pad used on bazookas to protect the firer's face from burns. As vice chairman, Rassweiler skipped right over Johns-Manville's presidency, which became vacant last week with the retirement of Robert W. Lea. J-M's new president: Leslie M. Cassidy, 46, formerly vice president in charge of sales. Rass-weiler's chief job will be to organize and direct a new planning board (under J-M's longtime Chief Executive Lewis H. Brown). Says Rassweiler: "We intend...
...your Oct. 16 Art section, Texas' Tom Lea was compared with such oldtime Southwesterners as Charles Russell and Frederic Remington...
...show was the portrait of Oklahoma Governor Roy Turner's great Hereford bull, the late Hazford Rupert 81st, which sired $1,000,000 worth of calves. He was, Lea recalled, "a most distinguished, gentlemanly and cordial old bull. He tipped the scales at 1,850 pounds, liked to have his back scratched, and was gentle as a house dog . . . He stood for his portrait not only with dignity but with the skill of an experienced and much interviewed public figure. He was pleasanter and far more interesting than many human portrait subjects I have...