Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...booklet after booklet in France. He also collaborated with Czech Movie Director Eduard Hofman to make a 90-minute feature film out of the series. The result, called The Creation of the World, took top prize for animated cartoons at this year's Venice Festival, and won the Silver Gondola for excellence awarded for educational and cultural films...
...large silver screen with the small grey one, Hollywood Producer Jerry (Peyton Place) Wald last week threatened what may become known as the Great Undershirt Riposte. Wald was agitated by TV's "unspeakable hijacking." Examples: last year Playhouse go produced The Helen Morgan Story just in time to capitalize on Warner Brothers' Helen Morgan Story, and this month TV Producer David Susskind announced plans for a $400,000 quickie that would beat the release of MGM's $12.5 million Ben Hur. Said Wald: Hollywood ought to fight back with movies that "in a tasteful manner will show...
...over, Amos was hands-down winner of the first prize - a grey-green, 2,000-year-old glass vase from a tomb at Beth Shearim. Runner-up was France's Simone Dumont, Baptist teacher and a publisher of children's books, who won an ancient silver shekel. Third prize, a gold coin commemorating the tenth anniversary of Israel, went to Brazil's Irene Santos. Georgia's Myrtle Davis was tied with The Netherlands' Clarina Niewland for seventh place...
...Virtually every club loses on its dining room. The club kitchen must always stand ready to serve food to a hundred or a handful. "And believe it or not," complains President G. Walter Ostrand of Chicago's big, choosy Medinah Club, "breakage of dishes and disappearance of silver costs us $5,000 to $10,000 a year...
...noble Gordon family. Perhaps the maddest of the lot was Lord George Gordon,* hero of this excellent study of a neglected piece of British history. He attained notoriety in childhood, dressed up as Cupid at a soiree, by shooting visiting King Stanislaus of Poland in the face with a silver arrow. Unfortunately, destiny cast George Gordon for the leading part in a far more horrendous 18th century shooting match...