Word: bianca
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about to receive a B.S. at North Texas State College, has had eleven A's and one B in the last three semesters. Winn is president of the 7,000-member student body, also wrestles, swims, plays golf, and runs the 100-yd. dash. ¶ Mrs. Bianca C. Stewart, 22, of New York City, has been blind for twelve years. A dean's list and Phi Beta Kappa Senior at Queens College, she majors in English and plans to get an M.A. at Columbia University for an eventual teaching career...
...Charts. The convalescent volunteers found their job complicated when, that same day, another woman of 63 was put in the bed next to Giuseppina's with the same diagnosis and temperature. It looked, too, as though Anna Bianca Battachi was to get just the same medicines. To make sure, the volunteers took down both charts from the patients' beds, compared them minutely. Then they put one card back at the head of each...
...mention of this garment, one of the volunteers recalled: "The patient who died in bed No. 19 was buried in a pink underskirt." Now at last the volunteers understood why the woman in bed No. 33 had muttered protests when they called her Giuseppina. She was in fact Anna Bianca Battachi: the two women's charts had been switched while the prescriptions were compared...
Last week Anna Bianca Battachi was alive and well again but still officially dead-it would take a court order to nullify the mistaken death certificate. Stung by public indignation over the mixup. Milan's prefecture ordered an inquiry. Overcrowded, understaffed Niguarda Hospital is not typical of Italy's hospitals for the poor-it is actually far better than most...
Jacqueline Brookes is fine as Desdemona, "the sweetest innocent that e'er did lift up eye." Her handling of the moments when she is slapped and bewhored by Othello is deeply affecting, and her dying words most touching. Olive Deering does well as the loose Bianca. But Sada Thompson's Emilia is too Desdemona-like; she ought to be sharply contrasted with her mistress--less refined, more common and blunt, at times even vulgar. I suspect the result would have been better if the Misses Thompson and Deering had exchanged roles...