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Personality: Lean and wiry (5 ft. 8 in., 145 Ibs.), caustic and witty, brusque Yankee. Married in 1923 to Rachel White, who regularly packed his lunches while he was governor, once repaid him for morning grouchiness by filling his sandwiches with laundry soap. On another occasion, Adams objected to Rachel's driving the family car to morning-coffee sessions with neighboring housewives, padlocked the garage door. His wife entered the garage through a side door, rocked the car back & forth until she pushed the front doors off their hinges. The Adamses have three daughters, a son and three grandchildren...
Director Hermon More, who helped put the show together, disagrees with the critics. He sees no strong hints of a swing toward more representational art. He culled some 1,500 paintings for the show, had to "lean over backwards to get more realistic painters." Most of those he found were already established artists; of the unknown good enough to exhibit for the first time, 40 out of 43 were abstractionists. Says More: "It's hard to find a young artist under 30 these days who paints in any style other than abstract...
...Brave Don't Cry (Group Three; Mayer-Kingsley) is a fairly maudlin title for a lean, unsparing movie about a Scottish mine disaster. Produced by oldtime Documentary-Maker John Grierson, the picture is based on a real-life disaster in the Knockshinnock Castle Colliery in 1950. It tells of a mine cave-in and the rescue of 118 miners trapped for two days in West No. 4 section between the firedamp and a flooded pit shaft...
Originally called The Sound Barrier in England,. Breaking Through is described by Director David (Brief Encounter, Great Expectations) Lean as "a modern adventure story." It is also a stunning film flight into the unknown, an imaginatively told movie about the human imagination exploring the whole new realm of the air. Terence (The Winslow Boy) Rattigan's screenplay examines both flight and flyers: the stresses & strains, mechanical as well as human, of its theme. A pioneer aviation magnate (played with consummate craft by Ralph Richardson) is dedicated to penetrating the sound barrier. Before his "evil vision" is vindicated...
...because he loves "blood and gunpowder." Hand-to-hand scrapping is his ideal: "Everything else [in war]," he assures Guy, "is just bumf and telephones." His pursuit of his ideal has left him with "a single, terrible.eye . . . black as the patch which hung on the other side of the lean, skew nose." His smile is a grim baring of carnivorous teeth; he grasps his cocktail glass in "a black claw" consisting of "two surviving fingers and half a thumb." He is fond of discoursing on the proper use of infantry. "You must use them when they're on their...