Word: parrish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was no doubt about the "master-publisher" part: Hutchinson's publishing and printing firms put out about 10 million books a year-from Calcium Superphosphate and Compound Fertilizers, by P. Parrish, to The Gamester, by Rafael Sabatini-and have brought him a fortune exceeding ?4,000,000. And there was no doubt that he had overcome plenty of difficulties-in person. For five years he had haunted the auctions, picked every painting and print himself, without a moment's doubt of his judgment. He knew what he wanted: "But of course! I own horses; I know what...
...trade. Soon after taking over, he put B. & B.'s sales force on an incentive-pay plan, encouraged unionization, widened out production to include playing cards, pens & pencils, cigarette lighters. His biggest coup was to corner the nation's top commercial art talent (Norman Rockwell, Maxfield Parrish, Rolf Armstrong) for B. & B. calendars, at a current cost, including other artwork, of $1,250,000 a year. Result: B. & B. became the biggest calendar company in the world (it sells more than all others combined, has 21 foreign outlets). From little more than...
Know Thyself. In Dallas, Edward C. Parrish decided that he was really getting just too drunk & disorderly, phoned the cops, had himself arrested...
Most notable performance (and the one which best shows off Director Wyler's skill) is given by ex-Paratrooper Harold Russell, 32. Cast as a handicapped sailor named Homer Parrish, Russell actually plays himself. He is no actor and no one pretends that he is, but his performance is more affecting than any professional's could be. Director Wyler merely surrounded Russell with plot and let the cameraman follow the calm, strong, unhandsome Russell face. The audience fills in all the emotion that is needed as the unembarrassed camera studies the two skillfully articulated metal hooks that Russell...
Everything had a picture-postcard look: the walled city of Quebec, brooding on its cliff above the St. Lawrence; the Maxfield Parrish mountains of the Gaspe; storybook hamlets, and fishing fleets lying like a school of minnows in the bay. There were oxcarts and outdoor ovens, pea soup and acres of cod drying in the sun. And there was Montreal, second biggest French city in the world, with the biggest black market in Canada...