Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...More than 15 million moviegoers in 6,500 U.S. theaters cast votes at the end of November to choose their own film favorites in the first Audience Awards election. Winners of the gold-plated Audie, first cousin to the Oscar: best actor, the late James (East of Eden) Dean; best actress, Jennifer (Love Is a Many Splendored Thing) Jones; most promising new personalities (actor and actress), Tab (Battle Cry, Track of the Cat) Hunter and Peggy (Pete Kelly's Blues) Lee; best movie, Warner Bros.' Mr. Roberts...
...history of English letters. When others sulked about the shape of things to come, he chortled, bounced, sniggered and bugled. The family into which he was born was a platoon of all the talents. His kin include Burne-Jones (uncle), the pre-Raphaelite painter, Angela Thirkell (second cousin), the sad librettist of middle-class soap operas, a president of the Royal Academy and a dull cousin named Stan Baldwin who became Prime Minister...
...Among the Stones. On a grey, cold morning in Spain last week, Padre Carlos Gonzalez Salas rose early in Madrid, where he had come from his philosophy studies at Salamanca's Universidad Pontifica. After Mass and breakfast, he climbed into a borrowed car and set out with his cousin and another priest for Cerro de Los Angeles, eight miles south of the city. This rugged hill is the exact geographical center of Spain. On its top once stood a huge monument, topped by a statue of Christ, which Communists dynamited during the civil war; since then, a smaller copy...
...FILM so strong that it can tow a car, yet so thin that cameras and movie projectors will be able to hold 35% more of it than of present films, will be manufactured next year by Du Pont. The new film's base is made of Cronar, synthetic cousin of Dacron; Du Pont spent eight years and $6,000,000 developing...
...head is stuffed with progressive sawdust, but her personality seems to have been forged at U.S. Steel. Her idea of mixing fun and politics is to give an Arab boy enough money to go out and buy himself a revolver. The boy in question is named Amar-cousin to Kipling's wily quiz kid, Kim. He makes a good deal of The Spider's House into a kind of child's garden of Allah...