Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brought was a replica of Simón Bolivar's sword, studded with 860 sapphires-a lavish memento, but also a neat reminder that Peru historically owes its independence to Venezuela's Bolivar. And in any economic comparison, oil-rich Venezuela could lay claim to the more spectacular boom (TIME, Feb. 28). But Peru could also make an impressive boast...
...Omnipotent. The trial last week quickly turned into a bout between Nova and sportswriters in general. The day after the fight, Flaherty's lawyers pointed out, other sportswriters gave Nova an even worse beating than he had received from Louis. "Nova is a spectacular bum [whose] challenge consisted of retreating in hot haste the entire fight," wrote Boston Record Columnist Dave Egan. Added the New York Daily Mirror's Dan Parker: "All Nova showed against the champ was timidity. The fight was . . . an utter stinker ... As to the 'cosmic punch,' Lou doesn't know...
Watch the Color. Designer du Pont* does not usually have to depend on a tenor to get him out of the tight squeeze he puts a soprano into. Resourcefulness is merely one of the qualities needed by the costume designer for Max Liebman's NBC-TV spectaculars. In addition, he must sometimes do the impossible. Last week's The Chocolate Soldier was Du Pont's 20th spectacular of the season. This time he had ten days, instead of the more usual five, to dress the entire company for the Oscar Straus operetta, starring Risë Stevens. That...
Designer du Pont, who looks a decade younger than his 50 years, faces his task every fortnight with the equanimity of a man who knows and loves his job. He appears at his office at 7 every morning, leaves after 7 at night. But two days before a spectacular goes on the air, he turns, up at NBC's vast Brooklyn studio at 8 a.m. for a 40-hour siege. He is equipped with a cot and icebox and, for emergencies, aspirin, Empirin, Desoxyn, phenobarbital and Dexedrine...
...Return of Joy. His 90 poems, collected in a single volume in 1953, have gone through a spectacular seven printings. Records of his booming readings have become bestsellers (TIME, May 2). Now more scraps of Thomas' vivid prose have been put together and issued in a single volume called Adventures in the Skin Trade and Other Stories, and his letters are finding their way into print. Dylan Thomas is more alive today than any living poet now writing verse...