Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Liotta, a brawler out of Boston's North End who fights under the name of Tony DeMarco, delighted a home-town crowd with a 14-round assault that knocked Welterweight Champion Johnny Saxton senseless and separated him from his tainted title (TIME...
Milliet, in Aries in 1888 to rest up from a campaign in Indo-China, met Van Gogh in the town and posed for him now and then. In return, Van Gogh taught him a little about drawing and perspective. The artist was "an odd, good-natured man," Milliet recalled. "He was a bit crazy, like someone who has lived a long time in the strong sun of the desert . . . We would frequently take beautiful walks around Aries and out to the country, where we'd both feel the urge to sketch. Sometimes he'd take his canvas...
RAVENNA is the world's chief repository of early Byzantine art, surpassing even Istanbul, the capital of Byzantium. The ancient churches and chapels of the sleepy Italian town (pop. 35,000) are lit by windowpanes of translucent alabaster and by the glitter and blaze of great mosaics such as the triumphant Christ opposite. Ravenna's mosaics, made of innumerable bits of glass, gold and marble chips stuck in plaster, have neither the drama of Gothic church art nor the human warmth of the Renaissance masters. Yet they are equally great, and gayer than either. Their gaiety expresses...
Produced by ANTA's Gilbert Miller, with CARE as co-beneficiary, Album served up a two-hour, hot-to-cold potpourri of Broadway bits and pieces. Some of the players were topnotch: Helen Hayes in A Christmas Tie, Saroyan's one-act Omnibus comedy about a small-town lady crackpot; Ruth Draper's monologue about a Scottish immigrant at Ellis Island; Pianist-Comedian Victor Borge's skillfully timed spoofing of Mozart and Manhattan traffic ("Every empty taxi you see has somebody in it"); and Songstress Lena Home's high-tension version of The Lady...
...singing. The TV camera seemed to add unbecoming extra poundage to plumpish Martha Wright, singing I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy. Televised in black and white, no matter how magnified the screen, Album became a blurry, uneven adaptation of TV's own Toast of the Town...