Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Most Beautiful Girl in the World (Oct. 22, 9 p.m.), with a jackpot (courtesy of Revlon) worth $250,000 for the most "talented, beautiful and intelligent" female on the face of the earth. The public will be the jury and contestants will be picked "without regard to age, color, occupation or country...
Bridey Murphy has faded away into the thin air that produced her, but a weird new phenomenon is loose in the land; a teen-age craze for a boyish Hollywood actor named James Dean, who has been dead for eleven months. Barely a celebrity when he was killed in a sports-car crackup, Dean last week was haunting U.S. newsstands, which are plastered with four fast-selling magazines devoted wholly to him, e.g., Jimmy Dean Returns! ("Read his own words from the beyond!"). The actor is also a current "must" in every movie magazine, while three national magazines...
...know you are not dead") at Warner's-more than any live actor on the lot. Marveled one Wesf Coast cynic: "This is really something new in Hollywood-boy meets ghoul.'' Hollywood's explanation: Dean not only appeals to a "mother complex" among teen-age girls, but his roles as a troubled insecure youth prompted many young movie fans to identify with...
Finchden's 40 boys have an average age of 17, come from every sort of home and background. Some are rich, some poor, quite a few come from what would seem to be normal families. One boy was the victim of an alcoholic schoolmaster who would sometimes tie his hands behind his back, force him to eat until he vomited, and then refuse to allow him to change his soiled clothes. One boy had been to 17 schools by the time he was 16. Others were regularly beaten or mistreated by their parents or foster parents. A good many...
Lithotomy, Lithotrity. Through its youth and middle age, the Lancet built its reputation on solid reporting and its circulation on a succession of widely publicized hassles with medical authorities. It offered the first report (1847) of the use of anesthetics, the first discussion (1867) of Joseph Lister's treatment of wounds with antiseptics. It boldly reported on a bungled lithotomy by Bransby Cooper, nephew of famed Surgeon Sir Astley Cooper. Young Cooper had made an incision in the wrong place, tried to force an opening into the bladder with forceps, finally turned to his unanesthetized patient a few minutes...