Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...edit a movie. In spare moments, at all state, national and international functions, he'd like to be toastmaster. He'd like to be abbot of the Friars [which he is], shepherd of the Lambs and president of the Players. And in the sunset of his life, if show business ever has a czar like Happy Chandler, three guesses on Milton's choice...
...long career as a rather dull Old Faithful of cubism. To make a little money for his old age, Villon had had to turn aside from his dogged cubism to do newspaper cartoons, architectural prints, and color reproductions of the paintings of his famous contemporaries. In his new life, he no longer had to worry about such workaday chores. At 74, Villon was selling as never before, and he had become the toast of Paris' young painters. His new pictures, they agreed, pointed a new path for French...
Royalties last year were more than $700,000, but they were no temptation to Scientist Waksman to take to the easy life. His self-effacing explanation was that he was sure the "age of antibiotics" was only beginning, and he wanted to do what he could to speed its progress. The institute would, he hoped, become a "Mecca for microbiologists...
...young drugstore clerk strolled into a vaudeville theater on Manhattan's Bowery to while away the time. As far as the direction of his own life was concerned, he had picked a good day. In addition to the song & dance acts, there was an added attraction-motion pictures of ocean waves. It was Joseph M. Schenck's first movie, and he could hardly believe his eyes. Said Joe: "Somebody will make a million dollars...
Champion. The life & death story of a prizefighting heel who becomes a public hero; brilliantly played by Kirk Douglas (TIME, April...