Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the Senate, the bill-$2.3 billion less than the Truman Administration proposed and $156 million less than the Eisenhower Administration requested-went to Senate-House conference. The House version would authorize only $4.9 billion, would flatly withhold $1 billion from Europe until the European Defense Community is a reality. No matter which way the final version leans, there seemed to be little doubt that the end of donation diplomacy is in sight...
...Athenaeum portrait was begun in 1796, when Martha Washington persuaded her husband to sit for Stuart once more. But the portrait was never finished (see cut for full canvas view). Explanations vary as to why it was not finished. One version: Stuart promised to deliver the painting to Martha when completed, but purposely failed to finish the canvas so that he could keep it to make copies. He painted and sold at least 70 such copies, one of which now hangs at Mount Vernon...
Since advance showings of the movie have indicated that it will be a commercial success, the odds are that it will manage to get many theater bookings even without a Production Code seal and in spite of church objections. A German-language version called Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach (The Virgin on the Roof), which was shot simultaneously in Hollywood, will be shown in Germany soon...
Call Me Madam. Ethel Merman sparkplugs a big, bouncy movie version of her Broadway hit musical about a diamond-in-the-rough lady ambassador (TIME, March...
...Care If the Sun Don't Shine, San Domingo). Interesting bit players: Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. For Comedian Hope, Scared Stiff must seem like very old stuff. It was called The Ghost Breakers in 1940, when Hope played the lead in a far funnier and scarier movie version of the old (1913) stage play...