Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Surprise, Surprise. Jones got his confidence and painting experience the hard way, after a rowdy but resourceful childhood in St. Louis' drab north side. His first sketches, chalked on his school walls, landed him in the reformatory, where he spent six months (aged ten) for petty vandalism. In his late teens, while working as a house painter, he studied colors and composition by himself, at 19 won a prize in a citywide art competition. Five years later, one of his pictures was exhibited at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...Bank, picks up a charming shopgirl (Leslie Caron). They fall in love. He holds off a pleasantly wolf-girlish American heiress (Nina Foch) who is determinedly sponsoring him. But the shopgirl feels a stronger commitment to the devoted music-hall idol (Georges Guetary) who sheltered her through a wartime childhood. As it must for all lovers, especially in Paris, love finds...
Cambridge born and bred, Baker (no connection with the George F. Baker Foundation) is a complete Harvard man. He received his A.M. here in 1930, and his Ph.D. five years later. Before this period he went to work with an investment firm, but finding "that my childhood interest in all things to do with transportation had not diminished," he went back to graduate school. He became assistant professor of transportation in 1936 and ten years later received his Hill Professorship...
...years after he came home, Farouk, nearly 18, married Farida, 16, a childhood playmate, daughter of an eminent Alexandria judge. She was a beautiful, bright girl, and they loved each other. Six years later, the marriage was on the rocks. The story heard most often is that Farida left her husband because he was running around with other women, but his friends say she had her share of the blame. But in one respect, she had been a disappointment to the King: she bore him three daughters but no male heir...
...Scotia to Mexico. In June 1948, he reported to the studio and settled down in Beverly Hills, where he now lives in a two-story white stucco house with his adoring wife, their children, Colleen, 2, and Elissa, 8 months, his still-doting parents, the ancient Victrola of his childhood and a gold 45-r.p.m. record that RCA Victor presented to him for selling so many of its Vinylite cousins...