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Ironically, Henry James' story about a woman with no advocates has been one of his most enduringly popular works. Even more perversely, the role of humble Catherine has been an award magnet for glamorous actresses, most famously in the case of Olivia de Havilland's Oscar winning work in the 1949 film adaptation The Heiress...
Dandridge built a career as a suave nightclub singer before playing the jungle queen in Tarzan's Peril (1951). Here and in Bright Road (1953), a sweet drama starring Dorothy as a rural teacher, she flashed limpid eyes aching with sympathy; imagine Olivia de Havilland with a little sex and a little color (Dorothy's face had to be darkened with makeup...
...nice little King.'...Last week he seemed sobered by his new sense of power, the next moment as youthfully impulsive as the Harrow schoolboy he once was. He spent one typical morning gravely conferring on affairs of state in his palace office, then suddenly ordered his private de Havilland plane made ready, zipped out to the airport in his Lincoln, screeched to a halt, jumped out and asked a saluting R.A.F. officer, 'O.K. if I go to Jerusalem?'...Privately he admits that Israel is probably there to stay." --April...
...most valuable commodity of McCaw Cellular is Craig McCaw. Soft- spoken and unassuming, McCaw is a demanding chief executive who drives a 10-year-old car and wears a $30 plastic digital watch. A licensed pilot, he relaxes by flying his De Havilland-Beaver seaplane to remote lakes in the Pacific Northwest. The McCaw family, including Craig and his brothers, owned 20% of their company's stock. When the AT&T purchase is completed, their holdings will be worth a combined $2.8 billion, making the McCaws AT&T's largest independent shareholders. Craig, who will become an AT&T board...
There are 688 works, ranging from Deco vases to documentary photos, from tiny collages to a reconstruction of Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau, from architectural drawings to a De Havilland biplane and a huge, sleek Type 41 Bugatti Royale, the ultimate dream machine of the 1920s, with sharkskin-inlaid running boards and a 12.7-liter engine, one of only six that were built before the Depression put an end to such automotive fantasies. Even the school kids, who race through the rooms of painting and sculpture, fall into an awed hush in front of this one, as their ancestors were once supposed...