Word: danae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marquise, porcelain-cheeked Dana Wynter, whose "lovely hands drooped down like lilies on either side," coped with blackmail and adultery with equally exquisite calm. Far flashier was Director John Frankenheimer, whose busy directorial conceits-trick angles, mirror shots, closeups to the pore, camera peeps through iron grilles, even the little photographer's aperture-often upstaged the work itself while accenting its hollow passion. Sometimes the tricks of the director, working in tandem with the star-crossed lovers and their rococo surroundings, were more attention-catching than the story...
...lance writers around the nation. Founded in 1907 by the late Edward Stratemeyer. who himself wrote under half a dozen pseudonyms, the syndicate's stable of interchangeable writers endlessly creates new volumes in such series as Tom Swift Jr., The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, The Happy Hollisters, The Dana Girls, The Bobbsey Twins, Honeybunch and Norman. These cannot be found on most library shelves; yet children always manage to have them in hand, and they sell at a rate of 2,000,000 a year...
Written psychological tests for entering freshmen were defended last night by Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth, Director of University Health Services, who said he was "puzzled" by recent opposition to the testing program, expressed by several faculty members and an apparently significant number of freshmen...
...Edward Dana, MTA general manager, viewed the talks dimly, stating that the groups "have not come to any finite meeting point." Action has been tabled for the time being, he added...
...Coach Dana Getchell held shooting workouts all this week to improve the team's effectiveness around the nets, since the team has played to four ties...