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Apr 9, 2024 · Hollywood elites such as Joan Crawford and John Mack Brown sought his expertise in the 1930s, while luminaries like Isabella Stewart Gardner frequented his residence. Sleeper’s social circle, including A. Piatt Andrew and Cecilia Beaux, enriched his life and inspired his creative endeavors at Beauport.
Apr 18, 2024 · Starring former football champion Johnny Mack Brown as Billy and Wallace Beery as his nemesis Sheriff Pat Garrett, the protagonists display a gratuitous violence that anticipates Vidor's 1946 masterpiece Duel in the Sun (1946). Homicidal behavior resonates with the brutal and deadly desert landscape, Hemingwayesque in its brevity and realism.
- King W. Vidor
- February 8, 1894, Galveston, Texas, U.S.
- 1913–1980
- November 1, 1982 (aged 88), Paso Robles, California, U.S.
Apr 18, 2024 · Normal tractors have nothing on the M100SX. It's so gargantuan and so specialized that Mack built just three of them in the mid- to late-1960s; this one was completed in April or May 1967. It ...
Apr 18, 2024 · North Carolina football fans who can’t be at Kenan Stadium on Saturday will be out of luck in terms of watching the annual spring game. The game was scheduled to be aired on ACC Network, allowing fans with access to see the team ahead of the 2024 season. But things have since changed. In his press conference with the media on Wednesday, head ...
Apr 19, 2024 · See all videos for this article. Harpers Ferry Raid, (October 16–18, 1859), assault by an armed band of abolitionists led by John Brown on the federal armoury located at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now in West Virginia). It was a main precipitating incident to the American Civil War.
Apr 19, 2024 · A weekend of jazz from Duke Arts Presents kicks off with none other than Vice Provost for the Arts John V. Brown as he convenes an all-star group of local jazz talent with national credentials. The John Brown Big Band will join forces with Grammy-nominated vocalist and Durham native Nnenna Freelon for this special one-night-only event. Freelon ...
