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Retta and Charles Gray Winston-Salem...
...solemnity and mythmaking amusing, and hopelessly overdone. His intellectual style was sardonic and self-aware: wonderful lights of satire played across it. If he sometimes labored hard at being a hero, or seeming a hero (before his election in 1960, he listened intently to recordings of Winston Churchill's speeches, picking up the grand rhythms of the language), he knew the limitations of everything, including himself. His instruments were sensitive to the bogus. He might even have had some mordant crack to make about that Eternal Flame...
Incumbent Saundra Graham and challenger Winston C. Forde did not file statements in the city clerk's office before the 5 p.m. deadline. City Clerk Paul Healy said that the two candidates will not be penalized because a grace period is included in the state...
...early-years TIME style, with its backward-running sentences and punchy neologisms, like "tycoon" and "socialite," which are now part of everyday English. It even displays some of the cover stories that were canceled because of late-breaking news, such as a Jack Benny cover that was scrapped for Winston Churchill and the outbreak of World War II. "In making this show," says Fuchs, "we learned a lot about the role TIME has played in shaping the history of the past 60 years. At HBO, which is just eleven years old, we were thrilled to work with an organization that...
...photographic portrait. A tribute to Karsh's artistry, some 80 prints, is currently on view at the International Center of Photography in Manhattan, which is displaying his work in conjunction with the publication of Karsh: A Fifty-Year Retrospective. The book ranges from his classic picture of Winston Churchill, which became a symbol of British resistance during World War II, to a recent photo of Italy's leading lady. "When an actress has the intelligence and professionalism as well as the beauty of Sophia Loren," says Karsh, "photographing her becomes a highly enjoyable collaboration...