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...Angeles in the first- ever women's marathon four years ago. Mota, 30, ran most of the race in the pack. Never, in fact, have so many women run together so fast, so far. When Mota broke away after 23 miles, Australian Lisa Martin and East German Katrin Dorre were too tired to follow. Afterward the diminutive Mota noted, "Last year in Rome, I ran almost all the race by myself. This time I could see the competition...
BORN. To Michael DeBakey, 68, pioneer heart surgeon and president of the Baylor University College of Medicine, and Katrin DeBakey, 35, former actress from Hamburg, Germany; their first child, a girl; in Houston. Name: Olga-Katarina...
...minimum. Fourteen out of the twenty stories are very short--four or five pages in length--and some suffer from a long, descriptive introduction; expectations are created which are left unsatisfied by the brief action at the end. One of the strangest stories in the collection, "Katrina, Katrin'," begins with a valiant struggle to reproduce the everyday speech of office workers on a New York subway platform, then abruptly shifts to a long, narrative story-within-a-story, a form with which Helprin is more comfortable. Yet, Helprin is also experimenting with pure narrative as a form: it presents...
Mama (Irene Dunne), who is very much the boss in her home, carefully allocates her husband's weekly pay. Katrin (Barbara Bel Geddes), who wants to grow up to be a writer, listens enraptured while the family's roomer, a worn-out old actor (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), reads aloud from Dickens and Shakespeare. Mama's painfully timid old-maid sister (Ellen Corby), who wants to marry an equally timid undertaker (Edgar Bergen), seeks Mama's moral support. Little Dagmar is operated on for mastoiditis (by Dr. Rudy Vallee, with a beard...
...bellowing Head of the Family, Uncle Chris (Oscar Homolka), who loves to scare and scandalize all the relatives he dislikes, dies, with a drinker's gasp of satisfaction, after tossing off his last neat drink. Mama, by swapping recipes, wheedles a successful authoress (Florence Bates) into reading Katrin's stories and passing on the secret of literary success (write about what you know); Katrin grows up, to write the stories that tell the whole movie in flashbacks...