Word: life
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This "dialytic parabiosis" lasted 90 minutes, was credited with helping to save the woman's life. (The sheep also recovered after a brief feverish illness.) Last week Dr. Pavone-Macaluso said that he wanted to try the technique again, but with a bigger donor animal-and hence a larger blood volume-to clear the patient's blood faster. In fact, he said, if he could figure out a way to get it into the operating room, he would like to use an elephant...
...refuses, Messala condemns him to certain death as a galley slave and shuts up his mother (Martha Scott) and sister (Cathy O'Donnell) in a pestilential dungeon. Ben-Hur is freed from the galley, taken to Rome and adopted by a Roman admiral (Jack Hawkins) whose life he has saved. As soon as possible, he goes back to Palestine, hears that his mother and sister are dead, enters against Messala in the chariot races and rides him into the ground. But Messala has his vengeance. With his dying breath he tells Ben-Hur that his mother and sister...
...standard of excellence by which coming generations of screen spectacles can expect to be measured. His virtues have been agreeably rewarded. Friends report that his percentage-of-profits deal with M-G-M will put him on easy street for the rest of his life. But it is probable that MGM, which was in a shaky financial spot when the project was launched, will not have any trouble keeping up the payments. Ben-Hur has run up the biggest advance sale ($500,000) in film history, and the studio expects it to run at least two years at high-priced...
...experienced pro fan ever leaves a game in its last five minutes when his team is only two touchdowns behind-any club can, and may, explode in those five minutes and win. Pro football is a game in which every carefully selected, battle-tried man seems larger than life, not only in skill and speed, but in sheer brute strength...
...Harry Golden, editor (The Carolina Israelite) and author of the bestselling Only in America. The stage difficulties involved are immediate and persistent. The adapters really have little to dramatize beyond a genially hard-hitting personality that best conveys itself in the first person, and a pungent egalitarian philosophy of life that seems blatantly pious when acted out. Adapters Lawrence and Lee must, in fact, swell out into two hours of theater what is not only ill suited to the theater, but what even in book form comes off best in ten-minute draughts...