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...Hollywood extravaganza, With a Song in My Heart. Her right leg was nearly severed, and for weeks she was near death. Then began a slow, painful recovery which included 25 operations, years in wheelchairs and on crutches. Finally she walked onstage again, but she still needs a heavy, ugly brace (she is now a $4,000-a-week TV star). In 1948 Jane divorced her husband, Singer Donald Ross, a month later married Pilot John C. Burn, a fellow survivor of the Lisbon crash who had helped pull her out of the Tagus despite his own broken back...
SUCH, SUCH WERE THE JOYS (230 pp.) - George Orwell-Harcourt, Brace...
...Crimson swimmers returned to Cambridge last night with two more victories and a seven-win, no-loss record. At Princeton, it was 49 to 35; at Penn, it was an overwhelming 74 to 12. The brace of wins over Ivy opponents catapults the Crimson into first place in the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League, with five victories...
...latest book, The Sign of Jonas (Harcourt, Brace; $3.50), will be published next week. It is a personal journal covering five years of his life in the monastery of Our Lady of Gethsemani, near Louisville, from...
...Tower, 15 car lengths from the entrance to the station, in little more time than it takes to say the Lord's Prayer. Conductor, flagman and brakemen went through the head cars, coolly instructing passengers to lie down or brace themselves in their seats. Still whistling wildly, the train jolted into a switch with its coaches careering behind it, raced down its appointed track and into the terminal like some vast, noisy and hellish projectile. Engineer Brower was seen gesticulating from the cab like a madman as he went by. At that moment, it seemed that nothing could prevent...