Word: splendids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CONGRATULATIONS ON THE SPLENDID LEWIS & CLARK COLOR FEATURE [OCT. 10] BY PHOTOGRAPHER BRADLEY SMITH. IMPOSSIBLE TO OVEREMPHASIZE THE EXPEDITION'S IMPORTANCE. ITS SUCCESS CHANGED THE COURSE OF NATIONAL AND WORLD HISTORY...
While scientists are usually capable of understanding the language of the philosopher, the historian, and even the art critic, "the non-scientist cannot listen to the scientist with pleasure and understanding," he said. "But despite its universal outlook and its unifying principle, its splendid tradition, science seems no longer communicable to the great majority of educated laymen," he observed...
Director Wellman has set up in his CinemaScope panel some splendid images of human mass in roil and flow, and Cameraman William H. Clothier has almost magically cajoled California into looking like China, with the gauzy seascapes, the abstract arrangements of seines in sunlight and the ochred skies. But the blunt point of the pictute is to display John Wayne to best advantage-stripped in a bathtub, bloody at the wheel, phlegmatically stirring his bayonet around inside a Communist. As usual, he makes a more convincing display than most of Hollywood's he-men can. And when Lauren asks...
...Charity. But as evictions increased, La Pira stepped up his requisitions. Early this year. La Pira ran into his first big trouble. La Pira coveted the splendid Fiesole villa of septuagenarian Princess Emilia Ruspoli. He moved in 57 evictees, delivered a note to the princess, reading: "I am sure you are grateful for the opportunity I have given you to do a great act of charity and so to insure that God will take you up to paradise...
...great deal of his spare time is still devoted to his curbstone clinic, still without fee. What little is left, Stapp spends as a happy-go lucky gardener. His fig, tamarind, apricot and northern bamboo trees lean in splendid disarray among the devil grass. Never having fully recovered from his career as a Wear-Ever salesman, Bachelor Stapp is also an accomplished cook. Visiting Air Force brass, or important civilians such as Northrop's Chief Mechanic Jake Superata (whom Stapp credits with much of the rocket research success), have learned to test their palates on Stapp-prepared specialties...