Word: appears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture has some real-looking backgrounds, but the goings-on frequently appear spurious. Sample dialogue, as a couple of meteorologists encounter a glamorous Mongol maiden en route: Q. "You made a hit with the girl. How did you do it?" A. "My training as a meteorologist. I can take one look at a girl and tell whether...
London's Covent Garden exploded with applause at the first appearance in six months of Britain's Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn. An attack of diphtheria last October had left strange complications. Her legs and arms were numb and nerveless. In January she said: "At the moment, I can't do even the easiest dance." By last week she felt ready to appear in the undemanding ballet Apparitions, and summoned her oldest friends to rally round. Instead of a few friendly faces, she drew a capacity audience of some 2,000 which gave Margot 14 curtain calls...
Nonetheless, it began a period of professional setbacks. In return for directing Sister Kenny, Dudley Nichols asked Rosalind to appear in his production of Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra. Ros felt that she had to agree, but told her good friend Loretta Young: "I can't imagine what I'm doing in this picture-it's all hate!" Mourning Becomes Electra proved an even bigger financial flop than Sister Kenny. These disasters steeled Ros's determination to return to the stage. While feverishly reading playscripts, she contributed to her movie decline with...
...Museum of Natural History, in case anyone wants a playback 100 years from now. This week Berns spent about two hours lining up the guests for his next show: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Al Capp, Author Charles G. (The Next Million Years) Darwin, Eleanor Roosevelt. The guests will appear without fee, which is exactly what Berns has to spend on the show. On past programs, he has preserved the pop of bubble gum, statements from Grandma Moses and Sam Goldwyn, a conversation between London and Manhattan cabbies...
...Cambridge, Mass. But since Norbert was not the kind of lad to lose himself in sterile specialization, he also looked into zoology botany-particularly into "structure and the problems of growth." It soon became clear that little Norbert was a scientific prodigy, one of the most brilliant ever to appear in the U.S. At nine he entered high school; at eleven he was enrolled at Tufts College, a dumpy little boy with thick glasses who found the classroom seats disconcertingly large...