Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Albert Curtis Brown, 78, New York-born literary agent who founded Curtis Brown, Ltd. in London in 1899, developed it into an international sales agency for works of celebrated writers (Winston Churchill, John Galsworthy, H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw*); after long illness; in Whitney Point...
Other members of the household are the cretinous twins Bert and Mert (Peter Whitney), their loony little sister (Jean Heather) and-thanks to the toxic ministrations of mad-scientist Hall-a phosphorescent Grandma (Mabel Paige). ("I glow, don't I?" she says proudly.) By her light MacMurray reads about granddaughter Bonnie's great bank robbery; as she dies, the old lady bequeaths him the tune and its doubletalked words which-to the proper person-will reveal the hiding place of $70,000 in bank loot. After that things get a little complicated...
...show, and probably the funniest, Murder, He Says lacks much of the ticklish wit and lightness of Arsenic & Old Lace; it lays most of its laughs on with a shovel. But by & large it is a rare old romp, played in specially fine style by Messrs. MacMurray, Hall and Whitney and by the incredibly ferocious Marjorie Main...
...cacophony of extreme modernism blew loud in Manhattan's Whitney Museum, which was host last week to "European Artists in America," a show limited to work by 39 Continental refugees. The display ranged all the way from swooning sensuality (Nude Reclining, an oil by Moise Kisling) to attenuated, nihilistic preciosity (Boîte-en-Valise, an "object" by Marcel Duchamp). Between these bypaths lay a two-lane highway of abstraction and surrealism. Outstanding was 44-year-old French Surrealist Yves Tanguy's Un Lieu Oblique (An Oblique Place), a meticulous composition suggesting a segment of interstellar space strewn...
...megacycles and above. Said Pierson: if it gets these allocations, Raytheon will start work at once on the eastern (Boston, New York, Washington) and West Coast terminals of the microwave system. Raytheon plans to build a string of stations on western mountain tops, from Mt. Adams, Washington, to Mt. Whitney, California. Eventually the east and west terminals will be connected by chains of relay transmitters at about 30-mile intervals across the country...