Word: leas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Odor of Courage. What "they," i.e., two big black bulls, do to Pacote and what he does with them is the climax but not the core of Barnaby Conrad's Matador, a novel about bullfighting fine enough to share the shelf with Tom Lea's The Brave Bulls (TIME, April 25, 1949). Like Ernest Hemingway, whose hard-packed style accents every sentence in Matador, Novelist Conrad is steeped in the classic ritual of the corrida. (In 1945, at 23, he shared an afternoon's billing in the Seville ring with his tutor, famed Juan Belmonte...
...Bull Lea (sire of 33 stakes winners) out of Jane Gail, a Calumet mare named after the wife of Radio Commentator Edwin C. Hill...
...musical program began with "Concerto Per Due Pianoforti Soli," by Stravinsky. It was followed by songs by Berlioz, and by excerpts from "Lea Jeux d'Enfants," by Bizet. Assisting artists were: Patricia Neway, mezzo-soprano, Arthur Gold, pianist, Robert Fizdale, pianist, and John La Montaine, accompanist...
ALUMINUM Thumbs Down for Harvey Everything seemed all set for Lea M. Harvey, an obscure Los Angeles aluminum fabricator, to become the fourth biggest U.S. aluminum producer-thanks to a $46 million Government loan (TIME, Sept. 10). But last week something went wrong. Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman notified the RFC and DPA that he was withdrawing his approval of Harvey's loan, which was enough to shelve it temporarily. His official reason: the grave power shortage in the Northwest, where Harvey planned to build...
Three Steps North (W. Lee Wilder; United Artists) wastes not only up & coming Lloyd Bridges and its Italian backgrounds and supporting cast (Lea Padovani, Aldo Fabrizi), but also a promising melodramatic idea. Bridges is an ex-G.I. who has served time for black-marketeering and goes back to dig up his loot. The site is a G.I. cemetery, and the nearby town is full of schemers trying to trip Bridges up for reasons of their own. They thicken the plot with so much intrigue that it curdles into the kind of confusion best followed with a score card listing...