Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legendary "treasure-trove" is in a class by itself. Originally limited to gold, silver and gems, it has been broadened by modern law to include paper money. An authentic treasure-trove must be buried beneath the earth by a person intending to come back and dig it up-Jean Lafitte, say, or Henry Morgan. If the original owner never reappears, the treasure belongs to the finder even if the cache is unearthed on someone else's property. If the treasure is dug up on federal land, the authorities take...
...spider man in the freak show and the gangling giant on the basketball court may have a common bond. Marfan's syndrome, first recognized in 1896 by French Pediatrician Bernard-Jean Antonin Marfan, is marked by excessive long-bone growth; it gives people elongated arms, legs, fingers and toes, angular heads and faces. One of the surest signs of Marfan's syndrome is a condition known as arachnodactyly-a spidery hand with long, slender fingers of exceptional dexterity. Many such people succumb to some form of heart disease early in life. One suspected Marfan type who escaped this...
...Radcliffe winners are: Jane D. Andelman; Jean Ann Burg; Susan E. Carey; L. Christie Dickason; Ann M. Graybiel; Lorella M. Jones; Lillian M. Li; Stephanie Raushenbush; Mrs. Antonia Kern Ridington; Nancy L. Silverman; Mrs. Dorothy Giles Souvaine; Gail E. Thain; Mrs. Marilyn Robinson Waldman; and Emily Zack...
Does anyone still care? Sure, a little. Director Jean-Pierre Melville keeps his expert cast zipping right along, pursued by a camera that emphasizes the gritty black-and-whites of his murderous milieu. Admittedly hooked on oldtime U.S. gangster movies, Melville manages to make Paris look like the back lot at Warner Brothers. Doulos, in consequence, seldom seems more than an ambitious hybrid, a gangland epic with Gaul...
Perkins claims that he was strolling on the pier after refusing-an aging degenerate's offer of 2,000,000 francs for one of his paintings-and the painter. Con Man Jean-Claude Brialy says he spent the night of the crime trying to peddle his kid sister to a tourist. And Gigolo Renato Salvatori was supposedly helping his latest client recover from an overdose of sleeping pills. As the case of "the triplets" unfolds, police and jury realize that they may have to free two murderers to save one innocent man. But the really guilty ones are Director...