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...said that women held high-paying traditionally male-occupied positions during the 1920s and World War II, but left them...
Died. Edward Vincent Sullivan, 73, gossip columnist ("Little Old New York") for the New York Daily News and TV impresario nonpareil; of cancer of the esophagus; in Manhattan. Sullivan began as a sportswriter in the 1920s, moved to the Broadway celebrity beat in the 1930s and dabbled as master of ceremonies in vaudeville. In 1948, CBS tapped him as host of a variety show the network launched on a shoe-string budget; Sullivan hired Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis at $200 for his opener. Toast of the Town (later The Ed Sullivan Show) was gored by critics but cherished...
...best film in the festival. It is four short subjects, all under an hour in length, linked by a common concern: the director's attempt to delineate ethnic identity. William Greaves' (The Fighters) From These Roots, a montage of still photos of Harlem in the 1920s with a stentorian narration by Actor Brock Peters, is the most traditional of the group. It struggles to compress a decade of black his tory into 30 minutes, and still man ages to repeat itself. Film Editor Mirra Banks' Yudie is a loving cameo of her Jewish aunt, observant...
...this is to show that Imogen Cunningham has been a very good photographer for a very long time. She is a portraitist. In the mid-1920s, influenced by the photographs of Paul Strand, she did a series of intense studies of plants, and even these are portraits. She bears down on a single bud or stalk and reveals the uniqueness of a living thing in the same way she concentrates on a human face and reveals its essentials. For her, Ansel Adams glares down from the top of a mountain, tripod slung over his shoulder, finger jabbing...
Died. Stanton Griffis, 87, Wall Street financier and diplomat who built a large fortune in investment banking in the 1920s and 1930s as doctor to sick corporations (Paramount Pictures, among others), then went on to a second career in Government service, including a stint in 1951-52 as the Truman Administration's Ambassador to Spain, where he fought successfully for a reversal of Washington's longstanding policy of isolating the Franco regime; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...