Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that one can do any thing." Then Ethel disclosed that "I never go [to the movies], not even to my own. Why should I? I never saw myself on the stage either, you know." She had television down pat: "It's hell." Notwithstanding its hellishness, Actress Barrymore sat down last week and was photographed as she signed a long-term contract to emote in a series of half-hour TV shows, starting next April...
...grinding monotone of competitive bidding filled the ballrooms of Washington's Mayflower Hotel. For nearly two weeks, 3,000 bridge players had been fidgeting, frowning and fussing with their cards while they sat through 10,860 hands and struggled for six national titles at the 26th annual Summer Championship of the American Contract Bridge League. The tension was enough to drive strong men to drink. Eventually...
...Pretend (Sat. 1:35 p.m., CBS). Begins its 25th year with an Indian fantasy, The Dun Horse...
...Mexico's greatest modern painters, old (70) Francisco Goitia, sat beside deathbeds to catch the last gasp of unwilling models. Diego Rivera sketched during all-night vigils in the Tarascan graves near Tzintzuntzan. And David Siqueiros was perhaps at his best when quartering and Duco-painting a heroic Cuauhtemoc in his death throes. Last week the U.S. got a good look at the work of a new Mexican artist, Jose Luis Cuevas, who sometimes plays truant from the embalmer's school of Mexican...
...like a man who not only treated the poor for nothing but gave them food, money and fuel as well. In Robin Hood fashion, De Geus clipped his few rich patients unmercifully, but no one could accuse him of greed. Before long he and the priest were pals, sat long over the wine after dinner, carried on endless conversations. The peasants were almost as shocked by their priest's choice of company as they were by the doctor's ungodly ways, but Father Conings knew his man. Even when the doctor went off to Rotterdam and came back...