Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smooth Blend. Just how 37-year-old Wald does it rankles his detractors, who cultivate the legend that he is one of the Hollywood comers who sat for the composite portrait of the fast-rising heel in Budd Schulberg's novel, What Makes Sammy Run?. Like Sammy, he broke into the movies as a hack scripter. Like Sammy, Jerry has stoked his career with a singleminded ambition, a glib tongue, monumental speed and endurance, a flair for opportunism and an enormous talent for picking other men's brains and putting the pickings to work. Whether a credit...
...Math, Modern Languages, and Classics. The Fine Arts department once occupied "the Loft" on the fourth floor, in the days when the only fire escape was a series of ropes on he side of the building towards Emerson. Sever also houses a large collection of classical antiquities, including 42 portrait busts of Julius Caesar. The current refurbishing has doomed the whole collection to the attic...
This fact, and the abundant display of Stalin's picture side by side with Tito's portrait in public buildings, convinces Mather that Tito "puts his trust in the intelligence and understanding of his people rather than in censorship," the professor told the CRIMSON...
...request of a Czechoslovakian Foreign Office official, the portrait of Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary (TIME, Feb. 14) was withdrawn. Its presence there, said the official, was "an unfriendly gesture to Czechoslovakia." This week U. S. Press Attache Joseph Kolarek had more to say about the gesture...
Champion. Kirk Douglas in a full-length portrait of a middleweight heel (TIME, April...