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Doll's House. Then came an even harder personal blow. Pregnant with her first child in 1943, Cinemactress Tierney went to the Hollywood Canteen to entertain the troops, almost immediately afterward came down with German measles. In the often-expected result, her newborn daughter Daria was physically beautiful but so mentally retarded that she will require lifetime institutional care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Reborn Star | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...Student Council's method of operation often provokes criticism of its motives. There may be merit in the Council's arguments against Harvard's continued participation in the National Student Association. But the Council's hasty disposal of this important issue last Monday and its subsequent refusal to entertain further discussion of the question at next Monday's meeting would indicate a blatant disregard for a large segment of student opinion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Waste of Haste | 9/26/1958 | See Source »

...assisting in the delivery room, I am always profoundly impressed at the miracle of life. After reading your article, "The Secret of Life," I am even more profoundly amazed that the geneticists can seriously entertain the theory of chance rendezvous of DNA ultimately producing the complex human being. How much more logical it would be to attribute creation to "the handiwork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 4, 1958 | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

Graduate women entertain graduate men at Harvard Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WEEK'S EVENTS | 7/17/1958 | See Source »

...though the only visible armament was a line-throwing gun. Caterers began loading on such supplies as champagne and cracked crab, and the master came aboard-but in bad temper from all the publicity. "Zsa Zsa Gabor is not giving a party on my boat," Ramfis snapped. "We will entertain." an aide explained, "but the general will be the host...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Young Man Goes West | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

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