Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brazil's Lott, 64, scheduled to arrive this week (see HEMISPHERE), could boast closer U.S. ties than the other guests. Lott's daughter is married to an American. One of Dutch-English-descended Teixeira Lott's 17 grandchildren is, as a result, Brazilian-American-descended William Nelson Monies, 8, of Springfield...
...Hollywood to outgun the six-gunslingers who have recently been pumping the TV audience full of lead (TIME, March 30). The trouble is, Producer-Director Howard Hawks has put too many shooting irons in the fire. The picture has not one but three heroes (John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson); they divide the sympathies and overpopulate the screen. For another thing, the film lasts almost as long (2 hr. 21 min.) as five TV westerns laid end to end-and it makes about as little consecutive sense...
Still, the trigger-happy actors flash their hardware with a difference. Actor Martin makes a snap shot that snips a horseman's reins at 20 paces. Young (18) Nelson, a popular rock-'n'-roll singer, gets little opportunity to show off his tonsils in his first Hollywood movie, but he demonstrates a remarkable proficiency with a Colt .45. Wayne, of course, walks off with the show-not by doing anything in particular, but simply by being what he is: at 51, still one of the most believable he-men in Hollywood...
...center of controversy in New York State politics since Governor Harriman's defeat by Nelson A. Rockefeller last November, DeSapio has been accused of "bossism" by Republican leaders...
...Mexicans started collecting, hired peons and Indians to do their digging. Mexican authorities became conscious of their ancient heritage, prohibited the export of valuable art. Result: a new spurt in excavations and the rise of smuggling. As more exotic relics appeared in the U.S.. such art buffs as Nelson Rockefeller, John Huston, Charles Laughton became avid collectors and paid top prices...