Word: kim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After TIME'S Foreign News section told the story last spring of Korean Nurse Grace Kim and her adopted son Ronnie (see picture below), many of you responded by writing letters and sending gifts to the Kim family. Because of such evident personal interest, I would like to pass along a recent progress report I received on Ronnie and his mother...
...hospital he was given food and vitamins in an attempt to nurse him back to health. There, one of the nurses, Grace Kim, who had already adopted a war-orphaned Korean girl, decided to adopt Ronnie. But despite his care, Ronnie developed alarming symptoms. An orthopedic surgeon made the diagnosis: Ronnie had tuberculosis of the spine. A delicate bone graft was necessary. Nurse Kim made her decision: the doctors could take bone grafts from her own leg to reinforce Ronnie's diseased vertebrae...
TIME'S April story concluded: "Last week the doctor chipped off a plaster cast that had held Grace Kim prisoner for nearly five months. Grace, he said, would limp for a long time to come, but eventually she would walk normally. As for her foster son, his back is still in a cast, but growing stronger every...
...Actress Kim Stanley, 29, belongs to a growing school of young stage people (Marlon Brando, Julie Harris, Geraldine Page) whose particular brand of acting is laughingly called The Method. There is seldom any eye-rolling madness in this methodism: the actor does not tear a passion to tatters. Instead, he digests the role slowly, bit by bit, until he feels that he is truly the personality he is portraying...
...Kim, a native of New Mexico, has been practicing her style since 1949, when she began studying at the Actors Studio with Broadway Directors Elia (A Streetcar Named Desire) Kazan and Lee (Men in White) Strasberg, both of whom worked with the old Group Theater and became two of the ablest craftsmen to influence the U.S. stage. Television jobs and a few good on-and off-Broadway roles helped Kim along. Finally, as the homely, dry-tongued adolescent sister in Picnic (TIME, March 2, 1953), she won both the New York Drama Critics' and Donaldson awards as the year...