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Word: dalton (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reminiscing about his childhood school days, Cohen admits, "I was in a group of boys with exceptionally high IQ's who were chosen to complete their education at Dalton, an ultra-progressive school. Our introduction to progressive education didn't last long, though, because they couldn't hold us down. Anyway, I graduated when I was fifteen...

Author: By Edmund H. Harvey, | Title: The Scientific Showman | 10/30/1953 | See Source »

...University, and noble gentlemen who gave freely and eagerly all they had or hoped for to their country and to their followmen in the hour of great need--the War of 1861 to 1865--in defense of the republic: James Savage, Jr., Charles Russell Lowell, Edward Barry Dalton, Stephen George Perkins, James Jackson Lowell, Robert Gould Shaw...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: The Classic Gridiron Marks its Golden Jubilee | 10/24/1953 | See Source »

...great head bulging beneath a grey wig, his outsize body draped in silk, Primo Camera took Hollywood Starlet Audrey Dalton by the hand and rolled his eyes for a soulful photograph. Camera, 44, the Italian giant (6 ft. 6½ in., 280 Ibs.) who was promoted all the way up to the world's heavyweight championship in the 1930s, had turned his acting talents to the movies after a moneymaking postwar wrestling career, is currently performing (but not starring) in Casanova's Big Night and Prince Valiant. To make things complete, he and his Italian wife have just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 7, 1953 | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

...lives. Around this celebrated tragedy, Titanic weaves a less than epic story that involves an assortment of fictional shipboard characters: a middle-aged couple (Clifton Webb and Barbara Stanwyck) fighting over the upbringing of their children; a collegian (Robert Wagner) in love with the daughter (Audrey Dalton); an unfrocked priest (Richard Basehart), a wealthy, wisecracking American widow (Thelma Ritter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 27, 1953 | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

...peaceful invasion, the only real foe they encounter is the girls' prim and proper father (Leo Genn), a plantation owner who is determined to protect his unkissed daughters from the advances of the enemy. But nature takes its course, and the three fun-loving girls (Joan Elan, Audrey Dalton, Dorothy Bromiley) find romance with three personable marines (Gene Barry, Don Taylor, Peter Baldwin). Written by F. Hugh (Kiss and Tell) Herbert, The Girls of Pleasure Island is an unblushingly sentimental fable that is both idyllic and dull. The picture's outstanding assets: the pretty, Technicolored scenery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 6, 1953 | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

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