Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same moment another royal romance went aground-that of Farouk's sister and Farida's childhood playmate, 27-year-old Princess Fawzia with the Shah of Persia. Since the day in 1939 when she was palmed off on an amiable, feckless young prince, whom she had never met, to cement relations between his country and hers, blue-eyed Fawzia's marriage had traveled much the same rocky road as her brother...
Last January, Helen, 22, married Robert Zimmerman, a childhood sweetheart. Both knew that she might not live long...
...soundproof room while little wires ran out like pigtails in all directions from her scalp. Doctors explained that a pen, attached to each wire, was tracing the brain's electrical waves. The only one that showed abnormal tracings led from the spot of her childhood injury-the exact spot to be operated...
...railroad worker, blinded by sparks, now has normal (20/20) vision. A nun from Ontario cried with joy when she saw her doctor's hands as he completed an operation to graft new corneas on her eyes. A Long Island mother, able to see only light and shadow since childhood, can now see her husband and two children...
What helps make a Tallulah filibuster spellbinding is the famed voice that can bounce a whisper off the balcony walls. Husky and vibrant (partly the product of childhood croupiness), it can shift without notice from a sigh in a rain barrel to a hoot in a hollow ("Are you ever taken for a man on the phone?" Columnist Earl Wilson once asked her. "No," she snapped...