Word: helene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearest thing the Italians have to Terry Moore. Born in Tripoli, North Africa, she wanted to be a doctor until she was discovered by a movieman in a swimming pool four years ago. Since then she has made 16 pictures. She was signed for the title role in Helen of Troy, but her acting did not measure up to her looks. After she blew her lines in 36 takes of a singfe scene, the picture was changed from a love story to a spectacle, in order (the word went around) to get more excitement and less Rossana...
...Miss Helen Trask. 58, modish but motherly mistress in the third and fourth grades at the Munsey Park School in Manhasset, N.Y. A disciple of the learning-by-doing philosophy, Miss Trask keeps her classroom humming with activity. Most mornings begin with a "report period" in which her pupils exchange ideas or tell each other stories. After that, the class's regular work-social studies, science, reading, arithmetic-flows along with something of the ease of a stream of consciousness. Through spontaneous "poems," pupils begin to learn the power of words; through reading and trips around the community, they...
...Traveled to Pennsylvania State University with Mamie to attend the funeral of Helen Eisenhower, wife of the President's brother, Dr. Milton Eisenhower...
Died. Mrs. Helen Eakin Eisenhower. 49, wife of Pennsylvania State University President Milton S. Eisenhower, sister-in-law of Dwight D. Eisenhower; of complications following pneumonia; in State College...
Fame carried her to Hollywood in 1919, and here the sober script calls a thoroughly slap-happy recess to watch a flag-waving Helen, as the star of the film Deliverance (supposedly based on her life story), lead the charge of a revolutionary rabble across something that looks suspiciously like Concord Bridge...