Word: maximilian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Died. Maximilian ("Max") Justice Hirsch, 88, famed horse trainer who sent out three Kentucky Derby winners in a career that stretched over 78 years; of a heart attack; in New Hyde Park, N.Y. There was never any other life for the Texan. He was an exercise boy at ten, a full-fledged jockey at 14, a trainer at 20. He handled more than 1,900 winners, among them Derby Champions Bold Venture (1936), Assault (1946), and Middleground (1950), but always refused to take sole credit. "Luck plays the most important role," he once said, "not the trainer...
...surface, all is well. Like the book, the movie begins as an anonymous stranger (Maximilian Schell) arrives at a village. He announces that he is the new land surveyor for the "Castle" perched on a nearby hill. Inexplicably, the suspicious villagers already know and fear him. The remainder of the story simply concerns his futile negotiations to gain an identity from the impenetrable villagers and a calling from the inaccessible castle...
WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 8:30-11:30 p.m.)* Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin and Maximilian Schell star in Irwin Shaw's bestselling novel turned movie, The Young Lions...
HEIDI (NBC, 7-9 p.m.). A TV adaptation of Johanna Spyri's classic children's story, filmed in the Swiss Alps and Germany, starring Maximilian Schell, Jean Simmons, Sir Michael Redgrave, Walter Slezak, and Jennifer Edwards as Heidi. Oscar Winner (Marly) Delbert Mann directs...
...serious easel painters, despite the fact that Corot, Cézanne and Manet all made use of the camera. Corot got the idea for his blurry landscapes from seeing an early silver print. Cézanne used photographs for his self-portraits. Manet painted his famed Execution of Emperor Maximilian from a news photograph...