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Princess Alexandra of Kent, youngest (11) bridesmaid at Princess Elizabeth's wedding, was doing fine after having her appendix out in London...
...June 3 the Council had submitted a reiteration of its 1946 position urging, on the basis of detailed findings, that appropriateness and need called for a Student Activities Center as the War Memorial selection. An appendix specified ten features of the Center it envisioned. When the War Memorial Committee received the recommendation, in company with a then-swollen roster of some 34 possibilities ranging from expanded ROTC facilities to a Harvard Forest, the document went in toto for a financial estimate to University architects, Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch, and Abbott of 1 Court Street...
Tricky Mix. Schary's tactics have paid off. Until he went to RKO, the chain's uneven movie production was just an appendix to its operation of some 125 theatres. RKS's setup was to make a few pictures, hire others from independent producers. It was on such a lease arrangement that RKO took over Schary in 1946 from David O. Selznick. The first four pictures he made for RKO (Spiral Staircase, Till the End of Time, The Farmer's Daughter and The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer) helped lift RKO's 1946 net income...
...kill all of you if you don't let me help." The medicine man was impressed. Fascinated by X rays, the Indians began to troop to the hospital to have their pictures taken. Mission schoolchildren, envious of the attention paid to any classmate who had his appendix out, demanded to be operated...
...drinks for the boys, and they love to let him. He also treats himself-to whopping feasts (thick steaks of corn-fed beef, hot biscuits, baked and buttery potatoes, lots of black pepper and paprika). Six years ago he tried to reduce, got irritable ruptured an eardrum and his appendix, went back to gourmandizing, and has felt fine ever since. Saturday nights, after drinks, a steam bath, a rubdown and dinner at the Kansas City Club, he goes back to work: "so the rest of the staff can't say that the big fat bastard is loafing...