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Hollywood's professional previewers last week thought they had spotted a new landmark in moviemaking. The picture: A Streetcar Named Desire, a faithful cinema version of the powerful, moody Broadway hit, with Vivien Leigh as the tarnished, sex-driven Southern schoolteacher, and Marlon Brando as her brutish brother-in-law. Said Playwright Tennessee Williams: "[It] has survived with whatever honesty and beauty it had in the beginning-and even more." Streetcar is due for release in September...
...students. As for research, he has had an obligation to fulfill. Schumpeter, before his death, made Goodwin promise to finish a book before his five years as assistant professor were up. The work, on economic dynamics, was finally begun last fail; in Samuelson's opinion, "It will be a landmark." The book will be finished at Cambridge...
...That landmark of modern art, Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, found its final resting place last week: the Philadelphia Museum. What's more, a prime version of another historymaker, Brancusi's abstract sculpture, Bird in Space, alighted in the same spot. These headliners were just a part of one of the most superb School-of-Paris collections ever made, the 1,000-item, $2,000,000 life-work of Walter Arensberg, 72, rich California scholar, and his wife Louise. Their collection, which fills their servantless Los Angeles house from floor to ceiling (and which includes...
Last week, with the test records rerecorded by Columbia (4 sides LP), jazz fans could stomp to the music of the landmark night nearly 13 years ago when Manhattan's dignified Carnegie Hall rocked to the first "swing" concert in its history (TIME, Jan. 24, 1938). Columbia, confident that the title will be self-explanatory, has called the recording The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert...
...Twenty-Fifth Hour, by Virgil Gheorghiu. A concentration-camp novel which has become Europe's bestseller; chiefly interesting as a landmark in Euro pean pessimism in the first aftermath of World War II (TIME...