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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Curator Theodore Rousseau Jr. makes a good case for attributing it to Robert Campin and dating it about 1420. In this century it has been exhibited only twice-in Bruges in 1912 and in Paris in 1923. Since then it has been kept out of sight...
HIGH DIVIDENDS are in sight for 1958, will probably match last year's record, predicts Standard & Poor's. For the year, it expects a "moderate" drop in after-tax profits from the $20.5 billion estimated for 1957. But S. & P. also figures that many U.S. companies will now be able to give a bigger share of their profits to stockholders because they will have less inventory and expansion costs...
...intellectual ghetto'' on Sunday has been crowded with rewarding shows, too frequently elbowing one another out of the viewer's sight. CBS's The Twentieth Century is a gilt-edged newcomer, and on NBC, Omnibus has dropped the apron strings of the Ford Foundation without a break in its stride. After a slow start, The Seven Lively Arts gave the season its liveliest artistic success and costliest flop ($1,250,000), in the absence of sponsors, and taught its uncomfortable host, TV Critic John Crosby, that where criticism is concerned, it is more blessed to give...
Dark, devout Antonietta, then 20, became pregnant and began to suffer agonizing pains, during which her sight became clouded, and she prayed fervently to the Madonna for deliverance. Then, she recalls, on the morning of Aug. 29, 1953, in the midst of one of these seizures, "I saw tears pouring down the Madonna's face. It was incredible. For a moment I thought I was mad. She was crying like a child. Then I began to shout, 'La Madonnina piange [The little Madonna is weeping...
...with his left eye (his right one is matted shut by makeup that realistically puffs, thickens and distorts his entire head to a sub-Neanderthal bestiality), and it seems a shocking breach of manners when Esmeralda, Quasimodo's barefooted gypsy love (amiably played by Gina Lollobrigida), recoils at sight of him. Actor Quinn has done too thorough a job of making his monster human...