Word: boatful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speak of him as of a dark, mysterious priest in an inner shrine. Said one elegant Parisienne: "Dior is a great publicist, a kind of Barnum of fashion. He has superb workrooms, everything is beautifully and interestingly done. But the only real designer is Balenciaga." Son of a Spanish boat captain, 61-year-old Balenciaga refuses to admit the press to his showings, avoids all Paris society, appeals to women who like his austere, sculptural designs. Enormously respected by his fellow designers ("We all call Cristobal 'seigneur,' " says Pierre Balmain), Balenciaga usually scorns to institute a new "line...
...Dictator Juan Peroón, 61, in one of his Caracas haunts, learned that megalomania still makes PeroÓn's world go round. Boasted Exile Peroón: "I have multimillionaire friends all over the world. For the past two years, a castle and a speed boat have been waiting for me in Lake Como, Italy. I could spend the last years of my life eating thousand-dollar bills, but I chose the harder road." Does that road lead back to Argentina and a joyous welcome home? Maudlin at the prospect of this vision, Juan Pero...
Woolly summer fogs and bitter March nor'easters sometimes hold up even the U.S. mail boats that ply among the 172 islands of the San Juan group at the north end of Puget Sound, but nature seldom stays Dr. Malcolm Heath, 43, from his appointed rounds. By airplane, ferry, small boat and (in far-from-rare emergencies) Coast Guard cutter or seaplane, Dr. Heath brings a frontier brand of modern medicine to the islands' 7,000 residents and summer visitors. He is the only doctor in the islands and one of the most remarkable G.P.s anywhere...
...Pink-Cheeked Apollo." In a sense Chicago-born Arthur Radford was bigger than his immediate job even when, as a Navy-struck youngster at an Annapolis prep school, he used to cut morning classes, rent a boat and head across the Severn to watch such naval-aviation pioneers as Jack Towers and Albert C. Read in their weird helmets and goggles, maneuvering Curtiss pushers through the bright Maryland sky. At the Naval Academy Arthur did well in the famous class of 1916 that produced more than 40 admirals and made such a hit at Academy hops that his class Lucky...
...uncaged animals to human beings with purpose and pride. With two girls who were her fellow prisoners and a young Dutch seaman, she starts out on the long journey to her home in The Netherlands. The book becomes a picaresque adventure as the quartet travel by foot, horse cart, boat and truck. Along the way are Germans, sullen or penitent or self-pitying; Russians, busy "liberating'' wristwatches, bicycles and women; and a boisterous medley of all the races of Europe who had been penned into camps by the Nazis and are now moving deliriously toward their homes...