Word: courtship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Direct Action. Though the first tentative beginnings of the courtship between surgery and medicine can be traced back to Cushing's work on the pituitary, no man has done more to effect the marriage than Dr. Francis Daniels Moore, 49, and few have done nearly so much. When Gushing retired from the Brigham in 1932, Moore was still a Harvard undergraduate, fascinated by anthropology. At the end of his junior year, he switched to medicine, and four years later to surgery. By then Frannie Moore's personality was emerging, and he has no difficulty in explaining his choice...
George Gordon Byron's courtship was as mannered as a Jane Austen novel and his honeymoon as melodramatic as The Mysteries of Udolpho. On the famous drive of the bridal pair from Seaham to Halnaby, Byron's "countenance changed to gloom & defiance as soon as we got into the carriage. He began singing in a wild manner as he usually does when angry and scarcely spoke to me till we came near Durham." Later, added his bride, he said, "Now I have you in my power, and I could make you feel it." The poet, after balking...
...Courtship of Eddie's Father. A whole new era of Hollywood kiddy stars may be launched by irresistibly talented Ronny Howard, 9. He does a pro job at finding a mate for Daddy Glenn Ford, Shirley Jones, Dina Merrill and Stella Stevens are the applicants...
...Courtship of Eddie's Father. A whole new era of Hollywood kiddy stars may be launched by irresistibly talented Ronny Howard, 9. He does a pro job at finding a mate for Daddy Glenn Ford. Shirley Jones, Dina Merrill and Stella Stevens are the applicants...
Ronny hit the big time in the picture business in the 1962 film version of The Music Man, has now been signed to star in a string of multimillion-dollar movies. Courtship, adapted from a slick novelette by Mark Toby and expertly directed by Vincente Minnelli, is the first of these. On the whole, it is just another sentimental comedy of the standard Hollywood brand. But at moments the sentiment warms to pathos, at others the pathos breaks up in belly laughs; and in all these moments Ronny is the live wire that sparks the show...