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...Alexander Philip Maximilian, naturalist, explorer, and Prince of Wied, decided to make a foray into the little-known Western regions of North America. He took along a young Swiss artist named Karl Bodmer to draw and paint what they could see. Their trip, which lasted a year, was filled with marvels of scenery and encounters with the Indians. At Fort McKenzie, in what is now Montana, Bodmer made portraits of the Blackfeet who came to trade there. One dawn the Blackfeet were attacked by neighboring tribes, jealous of the Blackfeet's trading privileges. Bodmer sketched the massacre-the best...
...crisis develops as, one by one, the members of this sick little clan discharge their tensions into a fragile lightning rod, a sensitive young tutor (Maximilian Schell), who longs almost pathetically to please his "new family." In return, the man of the house ignores him brutally, the son despises him vocally, the mother starts shamelessly breathing down his neck. In the end, they drive him to attempt suicide, and in his glassy eyes they see the death they have been living...
...awards for best supporting actor and actress. They beat out Montgomery Clift and Judy Gar land of Judgment at Nuremberg, which probably reflects the voters' disapproval of major stars lusting after minor Oscars. In an upset almost as surprising as Sophia's, Switzerland's Maximilian Schell (Nuremberg} was named the best actor of the year. "How did all these foreigners get in here?" cracked Hope...
...Hope Show (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Bob's guests are Ethel Merman and Maximilian Schell...
...contains a number that date back for centuries; one of the longest-standing is that of the 15th century painter Fra Angelico, who is still only a "servant of God." But two potential saints owe their candidacies to World War II Nazi persecution. One is the Polish Franciscan priest Maximilian Kolbe, who was shipped to a concentration camp in 1939. There one day, Father Kolbe volunteered to take the place of a married man who had been scheduled for punishment. The penalty: death by starvation in Auschwitz' notorious hunger bunker...