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Word: petered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...famous mission built on the flats of Brackettville, Texas. But could it be that piety is also needed for a boffo picture? Before the first scene was shot last week, cast and crew assembled at the re-created Alamo and listened to a special prayer recited by the Rev. Peter Rogers of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, San Antonio. "O Almighty God . . . today we ask thy blessing, thy help and thy protection, as once again history is relived in this production. We ask thee this so that the film, The Alamo, will not only be the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Pray for a Hit | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

Summer H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor, died Sunday night at 67 in Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, following a five-month illness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slichter Dies Sunday at 67 | 9/29/1959 | See Source »

...Isaak Abrahamsz Massa (conservatively valued by gallery officials at $120,000) and Vincent Laurensz van der Vinne ($80,000), Rembrandt's portraits of a Lady with a Lap Dog ($150,000) and a Lady with a Handkerchief ($250,000), Pierre Renoir's Portrait of Claude ($20,000), Peter Paul Rubens' The Elevation of the Cross ($20,000). It was probably the biggest art robbery in modern times, and certainly the most sensational since Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Thieves in the Night | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...Siege at Peking, by Peter Fleming. A vivid re-creation of the Boxer Rebellion, when a thin, red line of 400 defended the foreign compounds at Peking from 25,000 screaming besiegers for 55 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Sep. 28, 1959 | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

Thurs., Sept. 24 Staccato (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Pianist-Private Eye Johnny Staccato (John Cassavetes) has hardly slugged his way through his first two capers, but his style is already familiar: early Peter Gunn, with plenty of room for more polish. Still, Johnny is already smooth enough to take on a black-market baby racket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Sep. 28, 1959 | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

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