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Died. E. Maurice ("Buddy") Adler, 52, Darryl Zanuck's successor as Twentieth Century-Fox production boss in 1956, an astute judge and developer of new talent, including Joanne Woodward and Pat Boone, the producer of such box-office hits as Love Is a Many-Splendor~ed Thing, The Diary of Anne Frank, South Pacific and Columbia's 1953 Academy Award-winning From Here to Eternity; of cancer; in Los Angeles. Told by Fox President Spyros Skouras in 1957, "I'm giving you $53 million; let's see what you can do with it this year," Adler...
...Iraq which ended with the assassination of King Feisal. There is ample cause for unrest in the Shah's kingdom, and from across the border, Radio Moscow keeps up a steady drumfire of abuse. In his shabby capital of Teheran, a small portion of the population lives in splendor while the rest exist in the squalor of centuries, washing themselves in the open gutter jubes which double as sewers and water mains. In the arid countryside, the poor scrape the soil at wages of 60? a day while absentee landlords flatly refuse to follow the Shah's lead...
World to Self. That nobility often rests on the splendor of the language, but beautiful lines alone may reach no farther than the ear. Shakespeare speaks to the soul. He speaks in metaphor, which relates world to self, thing to thing, in the endless chain of being. Shakespeare could do anything he wanted with language; the way he talks of a thing conjures up the thing itself. The lines, "Not poppy nor mandragora, nor all the drowsy syrups of the world shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep which thou owedst yesterday," hypnotize with their own heavy-lidded evocation...
...after great misfortunes, it withdrew within itself." Gradually, De Gaulle led up to his message: a nation's greatness does not depend on colonialism. "It is quite natural to feel a nostalgia for what was the empire, just as one can miss the mellowness of oil lamps, the splendor of sailing ships, the charm of the carriage era. But what of it? There is no valid policy outside realities...
After 20 years of interviewing the city's rich and noble families for La Nazione Italiana, Journalist Giorgio Batini, 37, became haunted by the splendor of the private collections that ordinary people were never allowed to see. One day he approached the Contessa Bianca Cavazza, president of the women's committee of the Florentine Red Cross, with a plan: Why not stage a huge public exhibition for the benefit of the Red Cross? The journalist and the contessa started making the rounds, and one by one the Corsini, the Ginori, the Serristori, the Antinori, the Pucci...