Word: doll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What a Doll!" That evening Frederika and Paul dined royally on gold service at a glittering State dinner. Afterwards the President presented the Legion of Merit to the King, and Paul responded with a graceful speech. "Greece is the first democratic country which completely defeated full-scale aggression by militant Communists," he said. "We shall never forget that America came to our aid so generously in that hour of desperate crisis...
Unlike its predecessors, this new grand tour is never moralistic, never theological, always entertaining. The sins, presented as vignettes, are made by six groups of the finest cinema talent of France and Italy, and the framework for their presentation is a carnival doll representing each. A glib barker, Gerard Philippe, goads the crowds to knock each doll off its pedestal, and as each falls, the scene fades into the filmlets...
...kraal. Horrified, the doctor, who treats thousands of Zulus in the lonely hills of northern Natal, decided instantly that six-year-old Mavis was a white child; he took her home. Young Mrs. Botha gave Mavis a good bath, tied her hair in gay ribbons, gave her her first doll, her first shoes and set her at a table to learn to eat with knife & fork...
Paul Winchell,* mouthpiece-godfather of a goggle-eyed dummy named Jerry Mahoney, is out to prove that there is more to his talents than dandling a doll on his knee. Television's top ventriloquist, Winchell is beginning his sixth TV season by filling his half-hour show (Sun. 7 p.m. E.S.T., NBC) to the brim with Paul Winchell, master of ceremonies, man of many voices, dramatic actor, singer, dancer and soap salesman (Cheer and Camay). By such breathless activity, Winchell, a muscular, 29-year-old New Yorker, hopes to escape an occupational hazard of ventriloquism: becoming incidental...
...same Chapel Hill squad that administered both years' defeats is on hand today, led by unbeaten Southern Conference champion Doll Sylvia. He will face the Crimson's top man Johnny Rauh. The Tar Heel ace topped Rauh in three sets on the Crimson's souther swing...