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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...welter of productive activity that characterized the Bel Geddes establishment, Barbara was, comparatively, pretty small potatoes. Like Joan, her elder (by six years) sister, and a short-lived "little" magazine called Inwhich, she was the product of Norman's collaboration with his first wife, Helen Belle Sneider.* She was no match for such stupendous enterprises as Norman's transformation of New York's Century Theater into a Gothic cathedral for Max Reinhardt's The Miracle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Rising Star | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

...pictures father Norman took on his rare, explosive visits show her as a leggy towhead assuming all the languorous and seductive poses common to the movie magazines of the day. When no camera was at hand, Barbara would register her soul-searing emotions before a mirror. Her sister Joan and her mother, who disapproved of the children going to movies, called it "making faces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Rising Star | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

...Hugh Herbert's The Moon is Blue graces the Henry Miller on 43rd with the presence of Barbara Bel Goddes, Barry Nelson, and Donald Cook, while Welcott Gibbs' Fire Island comedy, Season in the Sun, continues at the Cort on 48th. Eddie Dowling and Joan McCracken close after the weekend at the Booth in Angel in the Pawnshop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jamaica's Opening Enlivens Week in New York | 3/30/1951 | See Source »

...Georgia, the parents of Carolyn Joan Purcell, just turned five, looked forward to celebrating a particularly happy Easter. Last January, doctors had offered them the choice for their child of blindness by surgery or almost certain death from suspected cancer of her eyes (TIME, Jan. 15). The Purcells stubbornly rejected both alternatives, took the child for further examination to Mayo Clinic. Last week, after sustained treatment with the hormone ACTH, Carolyn's Atlanta doctor announced that the noncancerous infection threatening her eyes had "very nearly disappeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Checkups | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

Elizabeth Trygstad Fast won the senior presidential election. Connaught O'Connell is vice president; Joan Smith, secretary; Louise Horgan, treasurer; and Jane Larsen and Nina Ratzeradorfer, council representatives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Elects Officers Slate For Next Year | 3/23/1951 | See Source »

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