Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came MARILYN MONROE, who makes a thriving business of publishing Miss Monroe. Her special A.N.P.A. edition was an obvious hit. Chatting with her, publishers beamed. Miss Monroe, as she moved among TIME'S guests, paused here and there before a statesman of the press to bestow her own version of the Pulitzer Prize: a big, moist-lip smile under half-closed eyes...
...nights before, Ballerina Nora Kaye starred in another episode which also seemed funny-when it was all over. As Blanche du Bois in the grim ballet version of A Streetcar Named Desire, she had come within a few bars of the moment when Stanley Kowalski is supposed to rape her. The scene should have ended with Blanche making a spinning jump at Stanley (Igor Youskevitch) and being flung helplessly over his shoulder as the lights go out. Ballerina Kaye (110 Ibs.) jumped, all right, but as she did her right arm landed in her partner's left...
...will not even be delivered until 1957. Furthermore, there is little likelihood that a U.S. jet transport will be on the market for some time to come. In Washington last week, Air Force Assistant Secretary Roger Lewis told Boeing Airplane Co., which had hoped to turn out a commercial version of its giant KC-135 jet tanker by 1958, that the Air Force wants Boeing to concentrate on military planes until all defense commitments are filled...
...things with an even more lavish hand. The Ten Commandments, with Yul Brynner, Charlton Heston, Anne Baxter, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, some 20,000 extras and a 300,000-gallon tank filled with water to play the Red Sea, is budgeted at $8,000,000. But the film version of the story of Moses from the time he is taken from the bulrushes until, a bearded old man, he climbs Mount Nebo, is expected, almost literally, to run forever in movie houses throughout the world. The picture will take at least 3½ hours to play and Paramount hopefully estimates that...
Chekhov put himself through medical school, but he was a doctor only by chance and a writing man out of inner necessity. Before he was 30 he had churned out some 400 stories, sketches and one-act plays, and the first version of Uncle Vanya. He believed that a writer had to be an irritated oyster before he would produce any pearls: "He who doesn't desire anything, doesn't hope for anything and isn't afraid of anything cannot be an artist." Damning his own as a literary generation of "lemonade" dispensers, Chekhov makes a telling...