Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which stated that L'Express had "totally deformed the facts," but Mendes forbade its issuance. While Mendés' harried advisers went back to work, the seconds got together across the street from Maxim's to discuss weapons. At last the advisers produced a new version, criticizing L'Express' "fallacious account," and declaring that the Premier "deplored that inadmissible insinuations be leveled at the professional conscience" of someone who enjoyed the Premier's entire confidence. Faure was mollified, Servan-Schreiber was relieved that he would not be required to print a retraction. Late that...
...editing the films to suit its viewers. Last week the Italian film My Beautiful Daughter (dubbed-in English dialogue) featured a beauty-contest scene with girls in Bikinis. The scene was cut for "family showing" (9 to 10 p.m.) but restored for the popular late-at-night version...
Actually, Thayer (1849-1921) was a better painter than modern critics are likely to allow. Critic James Flexner, for example, dismisses Thayer as a "workman" who "worked out a delicate and bloodless version of femininity which, draped or even undraped, was more pleasing to refined purchasers than the hardy realism of Homer and Eakins...
Divorced. Margaret Leighton, 32, British actress of stage (The Confidential Clerk) and screen (The Holly and the Ivy); by Max Reinhardt, 39, publisher (Nonesuch Press) ; on grounds of adultery with Actor Laurence Harvey, 26, the Romeo of the current film version of Romeo and Juliet; after seven years of marriage, no children; in London...
...Duff sings the praises of 19th century Hangman James Berry, who calculated precisely the length of rope needed to break the prisoner's neck with pulling the head off. Berry expressed this in a brilliant and still widely used equation which, at least in Author Duff's version runs thus...