Word: monogrammed
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...Vatican monsignor slyly suggested last week, especially recommended him to advertisers. Another fact might recommend him even more warmly. Once, when a playing-card maker complained that Bernardino's antigambling crusade was ruining his business, the saint suggested that he switch to making cards bearing the Greek monogram of Jesus Christ, IHS. Bernardino plugged the symbol in his sermons, and the card manufacturer waxed richer than ever...
...facts of its overhead, decided to grind out this year some 390 TV films, e.g., Ford Theater, Father Knows Best, Rin Tin Tin. The studio makes about $7,000,000 worth of TV films a year (as compared to $80 million for its regular theater releases). ¶ Republic and Monogram, once standard "B" producers, have turned almost entirely to TV filmmaking. ¶20th Century-Fox is spending $2,000,000 to prepare for TV deals much like Warner's. One planned series will be based on refuibished oldies, e.g., My Friend Flicka. ¶Universal-International...
James McNeill Whistler's monogram was a butterfly, which appears in medallion form in his portrait of Thomas Carlyle (see spread). In his landscapes, Whistler was a butterfly, gently sipping the sweetness of nature and making it the subject of canvases so subtle and thinly brushed as to seem evanescent. He lived in London, made his mission "revealing the Thames to the people who lived on it but had previously only seen it as a stretch of water...
...life, Whistler was part scorpion (and sometimes attached a scorpion's tail to the butterfly in his monogram), a terror of the drawing rooms. He had a bit of a beard beneath his lower lip, which he used to tug at for inspiration when cornered. Then he would open his mouth and paralyze the opposition with a quip. When Critic John Ruskin dared criticize Whistler's paintings too harshly, the devilish dandy sued him for libel. Among the evidence presented at the trial was Whistler's Batter sea Bridge (opposite). Looking at it. the judge made...
...work as a librarian. Between his bookish chores, Producer Wanger hoped to swing back into the old stride that had helped him turn out such hit movies as Algiers. His own occupational therapy project: working on a movie called Kansas and Pacific, which he plans to produce at Monogram after his release...