Word: saints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unable to have his way, Gaillard offered his resignation to President Coty, who had to put off his own holiday departure for the French Alps. For the final session at Bourgès-Maunoury's house in suburban Saint Germain, ex-Premier Guy Mollet was brought in to swing his Socialists into line. Then the Premier announced to the waiting reporters that 550 billion francs had been whacked off the estimates; over the weekend technicians would try to slice off the remaining 50 billion to satisfy Gaillard. The youngest Finance Minister promised to make his resignation "conditional," i.e., staying...
Under Turkish rule, Constantinople's famed Christian shrines, like the great basilica of Saint Sophia, were restored and refurbished to the glory of Allah. Slim minarets rose skyward alongside rounded Byzantine domes. New architectural jewels, like the Blue Mosque of Sultan Ahmed I, sprang up to rival the old, and the hiving humanity drawn by commerce to this natural crossroads of land and sea began to fill every available crevice with the insignificant architecture of its daily life...
...homes. This particular private hell is an apartment in a big Manhattan housing project. Don Murray is a jobless Korean veteran who, through some mischance of war, becomes addicted to morphine while under treatment in an Army hospital. Unaware that he is hooked, his pregnant wife (Eva Marie Saint) cannot fathom his jagged nerves, his remoteness, his all-night disappearances. Neither can his obtuse bartender father (Lloyd Nolan). But Murray's indulgent brother (Anthony Franciosa). a bouncer in a B-girl bar, understands too well; on Don's perennial promise of "quitting tomorrow.'' Tony has foolishly...
Hatful of Rain (at the Astor). By far the best of the dope-addiction films, this one stars Eva Marie Saint, Don Murray, Tony Franciosa and Lloyd Nolan...
English Painter Arthur Fretwell, 38, who makes a living as the art master of the church school at Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, received an interesting letter last January. It came from Nathaniel Montague. Lane, 68, the diocesan architect who designed the Anglican Church of Saint Mary the Virgin in the nearby coal-mining town of Mansfield. Architect Lane, with only limited funds, wanted to know if Fretwell would like to paint five pictures of incidents from the Virgin Mary's life for the church's gallery. There was only one condition: "The more controversial the panels are, the better...