Word: death
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sexually magnetic. Without his mask, Anthony quivers and quakes, is reverent toward God and repellent to women. Dion's school friend Billy Brown (Robert Lansing) grows up decent and successful but frustrated. He envies Dion's personality, craves Dion's wife, and, at Dion's death, snatches the mask that made Dion unstable and violent...
...fame and beauty, was writing to her "Joey the Clown" about appearing in his Pygmalion, through the declining days in Hollywood (where Stella was like "some sinking frigate firing broadside after broadside at anyone who tried to help her"), to the year before Stella's bitter, poverty-stricken death in a Pyrenees village in 1940, when the 83-year-old Shaw wrote a plaintive curtain line...
...great "B.B." had been failing for more than a year. Visitors to his exquisite villa near Florence reported that he seemed curled up on himself, listless, sere, like an autumn leaf in the boisterous wind of death. Last week Berenson's surviving sister, his doctor and his longtime companion, Nicky Mariano, were at the bedside, trying to ease the ancient connoisseur through a painful throat infection. Smoothing his pillow, Nicky asked if Berenson was all right. Unable to reply, Berenson nodded and drifted off to sleep, and death...
...appear in The Student Prince. His voice already showing tarnish, he allowed an earlier recording to be dubbed in when he sang on a 1954 CBS-TV show. He sought refuge in a sybaritic style of life, fought a battle against the overweight that ultimately led to his death...
Died. Lieut. General Oscar Woolverton Griswold, 72, XIV Army Corps Commander (1943-45) in the Southwest Pacific, whose troops made the assaults on New Georgia and Bougainville (9,000 Japanese were killed at a ratio of 30 to every American death), as part of the Sixth Army mopped up the Japanese in southern Luzon; in Colorado Springs, Colo...