Word: version
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they lived for nearly a quarter of a century, patching a life of torment into a counterfeit of happiness. Then, after World War II, the film version of Devil in the Flesh appeared, and all the old wounds were ripped open once again. Five years later, in 1952, Alice died. "Everything they wrote about us was untrue," she whispered to her husband as death approached. "I did nothing wrong." Already old in his late 50s, his spirit corroded by doubt, his neglected son a crippled invalid in the care of strangers, Gaston gazed at his dying wife...
...precarious cold-war no man's land boasts no D'Artagnan, but it has its own loose version of the Three Musketeers, a dissimilar threesome who feel a need to share their lonesomeness. Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, India's Jawaharlal Nehru and Burma's Premier U Nu have, as one leading Yugoslav diplomat insists, "a similarity of outlook on present international developments...
...Star Is Born. Judy Garland makes a stunning comeback in a Technicolored musical version of 193 fs Academy Award winner; with James Mason, Jack Carson (TIME...
...Cincinnati Art Museum made a gleeful announcement last week. "For peanuts," he said, he had picked up in Florence, Italy a painting that turned out to be a genuine Botticelli. which he values at $80,000. The picture was a smaller (11½ in. by 8½ in.) version of Botticelli's great Judith, which hangs in Florence's Uffizi Gallery. Adams guessed his painting to be one of the master's preparatory studies of the subject. Cleaning at Cincinnati had corrected some "bungling repairs," made Judith's head look less prettified...
Some of the week's most noteworthy events took place offstage and underwater. Colgate-Palmolive, sponsor of CBS's nighttime version of Strike It Rich, the show that trots misery right onto the stage and peddles soap with it, announced it was dropping the show at year's end. This good news for good taste was tempered by the fact that the same sponsor apparently plans to continue the NBC daytime version of Strike It Rich...