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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early to Bed. The President's 16-hour working day begins at 4 a.m. in his second-floor suite in grey-walled Catete Palace. Since the death of his wife two years ago, he lives with his son and daughter-in-law. He makes his own first cup of coffee as soon as he gets up, then goes through some lively calisthenics. Then, in the early morning silence, he leafs through the newspapers, studies state documents. About 5, his barber enters.* At 6, Dutra breakfasts alone on fruit, coffee and rolls. Half an hour later he is ready...
Martita (The Madwoman of Chaillot) Hunt and Lee J. (Death of a Salesman) Cobb rated bravos as the best actors of the Broadway season from the toughest audience of all: Manhattan's drama critics. Basso Ezio (South Pacific) Pinza nudged aside Alfred (Kiss Me, Kate) Drake as the best musicomedy male. Mary (South Pacific) Martin danced off with all the votes for top musicomedienne...
...Linz Building-a seven-story Dallas "skyscraper" with a roof garden where visitors could relax and enjoy the view.* And he was on hand in 1940 when Linz Bros, moved to its present quarters, a severely modern building a few doors from the Neiman-Marcus department store. Until his death last February, at 85, "Mr. Albert" showed up every day to hand his customers Irish jokebooks, and horehound candy to ward off colds. Then brother Simon's heirs stepped in-son Clifton Linz as president, son-in-law Asher Kahn as vice president. Under them, Linz's business...
Champion. The life & death story of a prizefighting heel who becomes a public hero; brilliantly played by Kirk Douglas (TIME, April...
...summer his job was particularly hateful; without his family, which was in the country, Dostoevsky felt lost. He suffered from nightmares in which his little girl was flogged to death as she piteously cried, "Mamochka! Mamochka!" His only solace was a girl who read proof for The Citizen. They would sit up late, reading galleys over a kerosene lamp and arguing about God and Russia. Sometimes he would explode in fits of rage, pounding the table and shouting "The Antichrist is coming! . . . The end of the world is near at hand...