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...campaign for the Senate seat of Burnet Maybank, who had died between the primary and general elections. Thurmond defeated a candidate who had been handpicked by the state's presiding Democratic leaders and went to Washington. There, he distinguished himself mostly for his windiness: in 1957, during a one-man filibuster against pending civil rights legislation, Thurmond kept talking for 24 hours and 18 minutes, stoked himself through the night with pumpernickel, hamburger meat and malted-milk tablets brought to the Senate by his wife (who was to die three years later, at 33, after surgery for a brain...
...one-man heavy industry, De Laurentiis has been pampered by the government with tax concessions and subsidies. His new studios have four immense sound stages, three of which can be combined, by sliding steel doors, into a giant indoor county, complete with pocket oceans for underwater scenes. A sort of Cecil B. DeMilione, he recently completed Barabbas with a cast of 8,000, many of whom are lions. And now he is preparing for the motion picture that will make Ben-Hur seem like a minor travelogue, the ultimate, untoppable, millennial religious epic -a $30 million, twelve-hour adaptation...
Died. Ivan Mestrovic, 78, intense, Croatian-born sculptor of massive religious works, who in 1947, was honored at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art with the first one-man show of a living artist in the museum's history; of a stroke; in South Bend, Ind., where he was resident sculptor at the University of Notre Dame. A devoted Yugoslav patriot, Mestrovic was jailed by Fascists during World War II, exiled himself when the Communists took over...
Last week Manhattan's Leonard Hutton Galleries had on display the first one-man Münter show in the U.S.-44 paintings whose colors glow in bright chunks and whose landscapes shimmer under blazing skies. Gabriele is the sole surviving member of Germany's Blue Rider group, which included not only Kandinsky but Franz Marc and Paul Klee.* In spite of her bright palette, there is no gaiety in her canvases; they are intense, charged with emotion, and all a trifle sad-like the artist herself...
...Crimson will be led by Gene Kinasewich, its flashy sophomore skater from Edmonton. The varsity, however, is far from a one-man team; coach Cooney Weiland has formed three balanced lines, headed by the Dave Morse-Jim Dwinell-Dave Grannis trio. Wing Tim Taylor and centers Bill LaMarche or Gerry Jorgenson skate with Kinasewich...