Word: silversmithing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Baron Erik Fleming, 60, court silversmith of Sweden, architect, sculptor and painter, whose more than 7,000 elegantly wrought coffee sets, platters and vases in gold and silver won him international fame, and whose strikingly simple, mass-produced designs were reflected in household appliances in thousands of postwar homes; in Stockholm...
...hand that plunges the latest rubber dagger into the heart of Hollywood belongs to no neophyte; Author Carson won the Academy Award in 1937 for coscripting A Star Is Born. But his novel has a chance for life only while Franklin P. Silversmith, his egomaniacal robber baron, struts over its sets...
...Pioneer Silversmith begins his career by peddling "stag" films, soon infringes camera patents to shoot his early two-reelers. On the West Coast, he thieves on a bigger scale, lifts a whole studio from a trusting partner. Silversmith's son, Ellis, starts out a yes-but critic of his father's tactics, ends up by becoming a me-too partner. Together they dream of a Silversmith dynasty. But the dream turns into a nightmare with the coming of sound; Silversmith Productions never gets through the sound barrier. A new breed of buccaneers squeeze the Silversmiths...
...Then he was drafted into the Army where, Peepers-fashion, he spent four months misclassified as a foot soldier before the Army gave up and discharged him as physically unfit. Cox drifted aimlessly for the next six years, studying basket-weaving, working on farms, in factories and for a silversmith...
...house, too. In the first place, he said, he heard that Eleanor had barricaded the front door with his $75,000 Rembrandt, had flung a Franz Hals portrait and a Turner landscape into a damp basement liquor closet, along with his valuable collection of antique silver by Paul Storr, silversmith to George III. Things like these needed a man's protection. Rose said he would also like to pick up some of his winter coats and suits, and furthermore he needed the house in order to entertain properly. His Ziegfeld Theater apartment, to which he is exiled (and where...