Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whose only noticeable departure from the pattern of his age group (35) is a compulsion to go barreling down a highway faster than anyone else. Ever since he was old enough to tell a camshaft from a drive shaft, Johnny has been driving autos, preferably fast ones. Last week "Jean Feetch," as rabid French sports-car enthusiasts call him, was invited by Rootes, Ltd., makers of Britain's Sunbeam-Talbot, to drive in the Monte Carlo Rally, a 72-hour, 2,000-mile grind, as testing on men as it is on machines...
...Departing from theatrical tradition Disney has cast Peter Pan as a real boy (with Bobby Driscoll's voice on the sound track). On the stage, Peter has traditionally been played by women: on Broadway, from Maude Adams (1905) to Jean Arthur (1950). In a 1925 movie version of Peter Pan, Betty Bronson (see cut) played the title role...
Luncheon was ending when a German military convoy drove into Oradour. A few curious Frenchmen left the tables to watch the helmeted soldiers dismount. Two yellow and green camouflaged tanks took up a position in front of the 15th century church of Oradour. Then old Jean Depierrefiche, the town blacksmith who was also the town crier, went through the streets calling on all inhabitants to assemble at the market place with their identification papers. The German soldiers began roughly turning people out of their houses. "Get up to the square," some of them shouted in French. The sick came...
...music, descriptive of the IndoChinese New Year's Day, savored strongly of the Orient, with moments of mysterious atmosphere, trombone blasts to describe a "menacing tiger," rumbling drums for a "creeping dragon," and an anthem-like "Song of Hope" for its finale. Said Conductor Jean Martinon: "A very nice talent...
Squeeze Play. In San Fernando, Calif., Jean Connors got a gift-wrapped, 4-ft. boa constrictor from her boy friend, who explained: "I wanted to give her something different...