Word: girls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Barbara Mutton, 66, oft-wed Woolworth heiress whose personal misfortunes earned her the nickname "poor little rich girl"; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Her seven husbands included Laotian, Lithuanian and Russian princes, a Prussian count and Actor Cary Grant. A granddaughter of the founder of the 5 and 10? store chain. Hutton inherited some $25 million at age twelve, but was long plagued by illnesses that ranged from kidney disease to cataracts, and spent her last years a recluse, often bedridden and weighing only...
After Boston, he did his residency at the Neurological Institute in New York City. In 1941 he married Beryl Dawson, a Vassar girl he had met at a college dance; they were wed about a year when Thomas, then at the Rockefeller Institute, was called for service in the Navy. Lieut. Commander Thomas waded ashore during the dramatic invasion of Okinawa and collected a lifelong memory: "I went over the side of a troop transport with a case on my shoulder containing 50 white mice, bedded on white toilet paper. One soldier who watched me wade ashore with this load...
Some families thus choose not to have children at all. Others, hoping that the baby will be a girl, go ahead with a pregnancy. But once they learn through amniocentesis that the fetus is male, they will opt for an abortion. Even though there is a fifty-fifty chance that the boy will not be a hemophiliac, medicine has had no way of telling whether those odds would be in the parents' favor...
...Girl in Black. Museum of Fine Arts, Tuesday...
...violence. The best parts of the book are about just that. Some anecdotes are buried in Cowan's tortured prose. He describes one scene in "Born Innocent," the show about a girl's reform school. Linda Blair is thrown to the floor of the shower room and "raped" with the long wooden handle of a Jonny mop. (At a screening for NBC executives, one was so pleased that he murmured, "This is great stuff.") The network executives changed their minds a month later after a nine-year-old girl was raped with a beer bottle on a San Francisco beach...