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Actor Salyer is exactly right in his role -the Virgil of this sad little hell. Though a ruin, he is a noble ruin, and by sheer force of presence he can command the onlooker to follow into the depths, and to look at things that may teach him a little-known truth about the brotherhood of man. It is not an ideal; it is a brutal fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 15, 1957 | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...father (opposite), who supported Villon's painting efforts off and on for 30 years. Villon, having refined his palette to the utmost, "touched the earth once again" by returning in 1940 to the vibrant countryside of southwest France. Part of his latest harvest: his superb pastoral illustrations for Virgil's Eclogues (TIME COLOR PAGES, June 6, 1955). Today, at 81, the holder of nearly every award the art world has to bestow, Villon can sum up the goal he has largely achieved: "to express the perfume, the soul of things of which science only catalogues and explains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: THE BROTHERS | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...first quarter of 1957 than in all of 1956. Chief reason for Chrysler's comeback: the styling, epitomized by flashy tail fins, which makes its 1957 line the most rakish on the road. At Chrysler nowadays, nothing is too good for the man responsible: handsome, silver-haired Virgil Max Exner, 47, the company's ace designer since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Crystal for Chrysler | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

Michigan-born Virgil Exner sketched autos in school when he should have been studying Latin, went on to Notre Dame to study art and design. After stints as chief stylist for G.M.'s Pontiac division, and chief styling engineer for Studebaker (at the age of 29), he joined Chrysler at a time when President K. T. Keller, who once snorted at postwar advances as "the Jell-O school of design," was holding fast to Chrysler's ultraconservative styling. Under new President Lester Lum Colbert, Exner set about modernizing Chrysler's line, put the company back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Crystal for Chrysler | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

When the time came for the unveiling last October, Virgil Exner was not there; he was down with a serious heart attack. Last week he was at work on Chrysler's 1960 models, which will contain the company's next basic styling change. What will they look like? Says Exner: shorter and lower. "We feel that cars have gotten just about as long as they need to be in the foreseeable future, and with cars lower they can become shorter without losing the low, long look." As for public acceptance of the swoops and darts, grins Exner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Crystal for Chrysler | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

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