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...Buxom, carefree, serene-to all appearances Daisy Ashford was just like hundreds of other well-bred little English girls growing up at the beginning of the century. After studying a photograph of Daisy at the age of nine, Sir James Barrie remarked on her "air of careless power ... a complacency . . . that by the severe might perhaps be called smugness." Perhaps Barrie was right, for what distinguished Daisy Ashford from her fellow moppets was the fact that she was the most readable child novelist in English literature...
...live in Turin with their son Aldo, 26, and Palmiro moved out to a smart suburban villa in Rome. Last week they got a legal separation, which, however, does not permit them to remarry. Rumor said Togliatti might get a divorce outside Italy. The other woman: his personal secretary, buxom Communist Deputy Leonilde lotti, 31, with whom he has been keeping steady company for several years...
When Barbara was 15 her mother died, and she was packed off to Vermont's coeducational Putney School. Putney's faculty remember her as "a bubbly, vivacious, buxom girl, with a talent for mimicry and no academic skill." At Putney, she dreamed through classroom hours, let her eyes rest happily on the strange new world of young men surrounding her, romped on the playing fields, and plunged ecstatically into a production of Synge's Riders to the Sea. After the play was staged, the school drama teacher wrote Bel Geddes that his daughter had displayed no dramatic...
...buxom, pretty matron spoke up very clearly in the quiet Manhattan federal courtroom. Calmly, Mrs. David Greenglass, mother of two small children, told court and jury some of the incidents of her domestic life. She told how, in 1945, when she was living in Albuquerque, she and her husband had a visit from a man named Harry Gold. The incident was to set the Greenglasses apart forever from their fellow citizens in the U.S. They delivered to Gold some atomic information stolen from the secret atomic project at Los Alamos, where Sergeant David Green-glass was stationed...
Easy to Fool. Under half a dozen aliases, buxom Mrs. Walker, an amateur miner who liked to be called Rimrock Annie, had a long history of falling on slippery floors, being bowled over by cars, being knocked down by people. In the process, she apparently fooled many doctors and quite a few insurance companies...