Word: dears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...distress to a fellow actor. "What did I do wrong?" At the end of the first week, when her name went up in lights on the Fulton marquee, Audrey darted across the street like a schoolgirl to have a look. Then, in sudden solemnity, she sighed: "Oh dear, and I've still got to learn...
...electric refrigerator went for $36). Soon, nothing remained of 109 Kakh Street but memories of a regime which had stood Iran and the Western world on its ear for more than two years. But, even in his last hours of power, Mohammed Mossadegh cost the nation dear: 300 died that day. Dressed in silk pajamas, Mossadegh surrendered 24 hours later to General Zahedi, was temporarily imprisoned in the luxurious Teheran Officers' Club and then carted off to a common jail cell...
...FATHER, DEAR FATHER (247 pp.)-Ludwig Bemelmans-Viking...
...where Gourmet Bemelmans used to cook his literary schnitzel only with the finest schmalz, some of Father, Dear Father would make even Charles Dickens clutch his stomach and turn pale (e.g., "I wonder," says Barbara, "if Christ came to earth, could he get a table at Twenty-One?"). Moreover, Poppy's critical eye, which was always whimsically weak, is now rolling toward astigmatism. "It never occurred to me," he groans of Lady Elsie Mendl, ". . . that she, poor darling, was relatively destitute. She left a million . . . but it's peanuts, considering her fashion of living, her travels . . . artisans . . . servants...
Last month I received a note from Joey herself. It was a simple note of personal triumph. It read: "Dear Mr. Linen. This is it! I thought you might like to know that I made it! I wanted you to rejoice with me." With the note was the announcement that Joey was graduating from the high-school class conducted for patients of the Carville hospital. I asked TIME'S local correspondent Ed Clinton to send us a report on Joey's school career and her graduation...