Word: hallmark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hoax? The very origins of the show had one museum director crying that it was a "public-relations hoax." Sponsor of the show is Kansas City's Joyce C. Hall, president of Hallmark Cards, Inc., which has used Churchill paintings for its greeting cards. Hall first approached Churchill through his actress daughter Sarah (who has been sponsored on TV by Hallmark). Churchill refused. Then Hall went to England armed with a letter from Painter Dwight Eisenhower urging Churchill to permit a U.S. exhibition. Sir Winston thought it over, sent Hall a one-word cable: "Okay...
...Hallmark Hall of Fame: Shakespeare's Twelfth Night is the kind of play that gives classics a bad name. The 350-year-old romantic comedy acts its age. Its plot conventions are no less archaic than its Elizabethan jargon, e.g., tillyvally, bawcock, clodpole. Such venerable comics as Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek are no subtler or funnier than the names they bear. However fetchingly its poetry may glisten through the monkeyshines, it is a comedy of errors usually compounded in production. To handle this thorny flower at all on sponsored TV takes courage beyond the call...
Dame Edith believes that eccentricity is particularly British chiefly for two reasons: 1) "that peculiar and satisfactory knowledge of infallibility that is the hallmark of the British nation," 2) "all great gentlemen are eccentric [because] their gestures are not born to fit the conventions or the cowardice of the crowd." Cynical sociologists might remark that it is not gentlemanliness that makes for eccentricity so much as having lots of money with which to buy absolute liberty. Among the scores of eccentrics cited, a great many were born with silver spoons in their mouths and golden bees in their bonnets...
...business becomes a big and discerning patron of contemporary art may still be a good way off, but it moved a little closer last week. For its fourth international art contest, Hallmark Cards had made eminently sensible rules. The 50 contestants, from a total of 16 countries, were all invited to compete with a free choice of subject matter. The results, on view at Manhattan's Wildenstein gallery, therefore combined quality with diversity...
...backyard-scape called Nailsworth, Gloucestershire. Honorable mentions (plus $250 each) went to Italy's Gustavo Foppiani, France's Bernard Lorjou and Bernard Buffet, Brazil's Candido Portinari, and Loren MacIver, Walter Stuempfig and Robert Vickrey of the U.S. "This," said Jurist Goodrich, "is the best competition Hallmark has held...