Word: agers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Science Dr. Kleitman reports that a movie raised the teen-ager's temperature one degree above her usual temperature at the same hour (once she topped 100°). The older girl usually heated up half a degree; when she saw a double feature, the rise was less. (Possible explanation: temperature ordinarily falls as evening advances...
...officer reported missing in action, repeats her dramatic success in "So Proudly We Hall" with plenty to spare. Joseph Cotton scores his own triumph, and Monty Wooley adds the inimitable Wooley flavor in his rivalry with the family bulldog. Shirley Temple in her stock role of the tomboyish teen-ager injects a warm appeal...
...broad daylight, fabulously rich Mauricio Hochschild, most political of Bolivia's three great tin magnates, got into a car with Adolfo Blum, his general mani ager. They drove to the Chilean Embassy in a suburb of La Paz to get a visa so Hochschild could go to Chile. Then they vanished, leaving only an empty car and an echoing mystery...
Bamboo Music Hall. Major Clark Robinson organized the show in Assam while constructing a crude movie theater known as the Bamboo Music Hall. Robinson, a former New York scenic designer (Radio City Music Hall, the Roxy Theater), got the help of Private Al Roth as stage man- ager, gathered talent as he could find it. Props were made from whatever came handy...
...handsome Joey Binns is an old hand at hotel trouble shooting. Born of Quaker parents in Winona, Ohio, he de cided at ten to become a hotel man, got his first job as a storeroom boy. As man ager of Stevens, he draws down $25,000 a year (plus maintenance). No lover of city life, Binns camouflages the door of his suite in the Stevens to look like that of an ivy-covered cottage...