Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adman Lasker at 64 plunged into the market, convinced that the world of advertising art had all along been drawing its ideas from the prime originators of modern painting. In the next eight years he amassed a spectacular collection ranging from an 1834 Corot to a 1950 Joán Miró. The results, shown by the 60 color plates of The Albert D. Lasker Collection (Simon & Schuster; $20), make one of the handsomest art books of the season...
Specter & Cheer. One major bright spot of the season is the "special," as TV now calls its "spectacular." The genre produced one sheer disaster-Mike Todd's go-minute commercial for Mike Todd on CBS-but its batting average has been lifted high with such hits as The Prince and the Pauper, The Green Pastures, Annie Get Your Gun and the NBC Opera production of Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites. Most of these were in color, but there was still no big breakthrough in sales to U.S. homes of color sets, which now number only...
...even when their great Rookie Jim Brown carried-jarring Detroit tackles forced costly fumbles. And when red-dogging Brown linebackers broke through on Lion Quarterback Rote, a fine fullback named John Henry Johnson was almost always there to take a hand-off and explode up the middle on spectacular draw plays. By the end of the half, the Lions were leading...
October. On the academic scene, Professor Leonard K. Nash will survive a green explosion which destroys Burr Hall. Says Mr. Nash, "It was pretty spectacular." President Eisenhower regains consciousness and announces that this nation, "with the help of God, Sherman Adams, and a firm belief in motherhood will muddle through the crisis." The Air Force denies that it has bombed the Navy-controlled Pentagon. Dean Bundy denies that he is upset by Harvard's winless football team...
...books about Blake appear each season. Critically, none has bettered Albert Roe's profound study of the artist's illustrations for Dante, published in 1953 (Princeton University; $20). But the new Complete Writings of William Blake (Nonesuch Press-Random House; $12.50) fills a basic need. Most spectacular is a 2-ft.-high volume of Blake's illustrations for the Bible, sponsored by the Blake Trust and distributed in the U.S. (by Philip Duschnes) at a stiff $95 a copy...