Word: urns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Urned Income. In Los Angeles, Joe Chavers got his .lunch wagon stuck in the path of a Santa Fe passenger train, leaped to safety in the nick of time as the train hit the wagon, demolished everything but the coffee urn, from which Chavers sold hot java to the train crew and spectators...
FROM the moment they were dug out of their forgotten tombs early in the 19th century, ancient Greek vases moved art lovers to lyrical expressions of delight. One Grecian urn inspired John Keats to write the famed lines: " 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty'-that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." In the next century the vases aroused the collector's instinct in the late William Randolph Hearst. He began buying in 1901, owned 400 when he died 50 years later. Last year New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art bought...
...snarl, ever brushing off moviedom's hordes of phonies with the back of one hand, in the other eternally clutching a tumbler of Scotch, Bogart had won wide respect by managing, on screen or off, to be perversely ingratiating Humphrey Bogart. With Bogie's ashes in an urn was placed a tiny gold whistle, a memento of his first meeting 13 years ago with his widow, Cinemactress Lauren Bacall. The whistle bore an inscription borrowed from the dialogue of their first film together, To Have and Have Not: "If you need anything, just whistle...
...drama was even limper. NBC's Television Playhouse offered a soporific love story about an Army nurse and a wounded boy lieutenant; Studio One had a rambling farce that required a parcel of adults to pretend that they thought a coffee urn was a top-secret ballistic missile; Playwrights '56 went arch and arty about a British murder trial; Kraft TV Theater contributed a cops-and-robbers bit that depended on the excessive dumbness of its hero to keep it alive for 60 minutes...
...responsibility: "The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is good. Everything goes . . . to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies...