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Belinda is harshly treated by her father (Charles Bickford) and her aunt (Agnes Moorehead), and is generally regarded as a dimwit. Then the new doctor discovers her and teaches her sign language. She has scarcely begun to blossom when she is raped by the local Lothario (Stephen McNally). She gives birth to a baby, and refuses to name the father. Everyone assumes that the doctor is guilty and he has to leave town. But after a murder and a courtroom scene, everything turns out all right...
Everything that goes into the magazine must have a Gould O.K. They even approve (with a calculating eye on what's really good for women) the little epigrams that bloom back among the ads. A sample blossom...
Last week the Times crossed him up by one day. What the mother paper did on Monday was to blossom out in a new look, with new typography, bigger departments of opinion and women's news, and a green-colored sports section. But Tuesday noon, Publisher Norman Chandler called staffers to his fifth-floor auditorium, solemnly told them: "The news is too exciting to be withheld from you any longer . . . The Times is to sponsor a new newspaper. It will appear in the fall . . . and will be housed in our new annex. If anybody asks you about this, tell...
...booths and sideshows on Cambridge Common; one of these in 1797 featured a talking elephant that was reputed also to be able to drink thirty bottles of porter at a sitting. The visitors and the graduating seniors came in the height of the day's fashion--embroidered waistcoats, peach-blossom coats, and powdered wigs--,and one elderly lady sat up all night in her elbow chair before the 1758 Commencement in order not to disturb the arrangement of her hair...
...Winchester, Va., General Hoyt S. Vandenberg found time in a busy week to crown Skater Gretchen Merrill as Queen Shenandoah XXI of the annual Apple Blossom Festival. Her scepter looked like a rather graceful table...