Word: eight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newsletter in San Juan for businessmen interested in the island. The tabloid Star will be printed six days a week on the presses of El Impartial, San Juan's second Spanish daily, will be aimed more at English-speaking residents than tourists. Hoped-for circulation: 15,000 in eight months...
Heads nodded approvingly at the choice for Christ: 47-year-old Anton Preisinger, owner of the second largest hotel in town, who played the part in 1950 and was much praised for his combination of gentleness and physical endurance during 85 eight-hour performances in which he hangs for 30 minutes on the cross. Then the committee turned to youth. Gabriele Cropper, 1950's Magdalene, who had put off her marriage (though she is 34) because she thought she was in the running for the part of the Virgin Mary, burst into tears when the committee chose Irmi Dengg...
...Yorkshire country, with its brooding hills and its sooted shadows, that brings out the digger and molder in a man, and by the age of ten Moore knew he would be a sculptor. Their miner's home was poor and crowded-Henry was the seventh of eight children. Father Moore was a fair but stern man. Says son Henry: "He was the complete Victorian father, aloof, spoiled like all of them in those days. No one could sit in his particular chair. But though he was not outwardly soft, he had a real concern and love and ambition...
...Moore's mother who dominated his boyhood. "She was absolutely feminine, womanly, motherly. She had eight children and lost only two. She was an absolutely indefatigable mother. Her day would sometimes begin at 4:30 in the morning, when father was on early shift at the mine, and it would end in the night some time. Never can I remember her resting, except that once in a while she would be bothered by a sort of rheumatism. 'Oh, Henry lad. This shoulder is giving me gyp today...
SUPERMARKET TV will be started by National Telefilm Associates in 400 New York-area stores on Nov. 1. Plan calls for installation of eight TV sets in each supermarket to plug stores' products...