Word: nov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...series of precise, sharply composed nature studies that made him famous, won (in 1937) the first Guggenheim fellowship ever given to a photographer. Weston used little equipment, almost never retouched or cropped his clear, spare negatives, cautiously refused until 1947 to use color film, but when he did (LIFE, Nov. 25, 1957) produced some of the finest pictures of his career...
...carpeting. Last fall. $215,000 in debt, Belin filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy. He explained that the Texas insurance companies that were to buy the bond issue were under investigation and that one was headed by Boy Wizard Ben-Jack Cage, who had been convicted of embezzlement (TIME, Nov. 4). But as Missouri newspapers soon found out, money was not the only root of the university's evils...
...faces, fresh ideas or creative talent, the season has little to show so far. The only major new star is a personable retread named Jack Paar (TIME, Oct. 28), the gentlemanly comic who rescued NBC's Tonight from the junk heap. Studio One produced The Deaf Heart (TIME. Nov. 4), a striking first script by a highly promising 29-year-old playwright named Mayo Simon, but nobody seems to know whether he can ride or shoot. Of the new situation comedies, only Leave It to Beaver (see below) has taken fire. Among minor new wrinkles...
...slow start, The Seven Lively Arts gave the season its liveliest artistic success and costliest flop ($1,250,000), in the absence of sponsors, and taught its uncomfortable host, TV Critic John Crosby, that where criticism is concerned, it is more blessed to give than to receive (TIME, Nov. 18). CBS's decision to present sponsored major-league baseball on Sunday afternoons starting next June raised an ugly specter: Will fiercer competition among the networks upset the tradition of giving one afternoon a week to culture...
Marriage Revealed. Sam Spiegel, 55, Austrian-born Hollywood producer (The Bridge on the River Kwai, On the Waterfront); and Betty Benson, 27, onetime model; he for the third time, she for the first; on Nov. 26, in Manhattan...