Word: juanita
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frame house on a quiet street shaded by hackberry trees, the second of Isaac and Emma Hoover Culp's seven children. Her mother named her Oveta (an Indian word for forget) after a character in a romantic novel, and because it rhymed so pleasantly with Juanita, the name of the first Culp daughter. Mother Culp is a remote cousin of Herbert and J. Edgar Hoover; at 72, she still leads an active life in Killeen, fishing, gardening, and driving her own Buick. Ike Culp was a rawboned, fiery-tempered lawyer, a Baptist, a Prohibitionist, a politician and a lover...
Trade Secret. In Manhattan, when two gunmen held up a candy store, one of them sidled up to Salesgirl Juanita Christian and murmured: "Don't be frightened. I'm just as scared...
...Franklyn ("Tommy") Manville, 58, asbestosexed playboy; and platinum blonde Anita Frances Roddy-Eden, 29, dancer and songwriter; in New Rochelle, N.Y. He was her first; she was his ninth. For a few tense seconds, Manville mistook his fianćee's twin sister and matron of honor, Mrs. Juanita Roddy-Eden Patifio, for the bride, but recovered quickly, lit a cigarette and got married (by the mayor of New Rochelle) to the right girl...
...Awards, the stage's closest approach to Hollywood's Oscars. South Pacific, produced too late to qualify for last year's honors, was named the "outstanding" musical, and individual "Tonys" went to its producers, Director Joshua Logan and four of its players: Mary Martin, Ezio Pinza, Juanita Hall and Myron McCormick. The outstanding play: The Cocktail Party...