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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Performer Meredith Willson, 56, the jovial lowan who in his first try for the theater wrote book, music and lyrics; Director (No Time for Sergeants, Auntie Mame) Morton Da Costa, 44, who gave the show its sparkle and pace; and the Music Man himself, longtime Cinemactor Robert Preston, 40, known vaguely to millions of moviegoers for years as the handsome, thick-browed heavy of B pictures who rarely got the girl...
...Shoot proved to be a hamlet in the middle of a swampy, oil-rich wooded area known as the "Big Thicket." Its 194 inhabitants claim that "if you stand around long enough, you'll get cut; if you try to run, you'll get shot." The city-slicker writers found Roy a quiet, soft-spoken schoolteacher and ex-Army lieutenant living in a modern cottage on the Harris farm. Roy told them he was part Indian (Cherokee) and "I want to prove that I am a fighter and not a myth." They all dutifully wrote that down...
...from 1926 to 1951. has been dean of the university's Graduate School since 1945. Lancashire-born Chemist Taylor studied with Nobel Prizewinner Svante Arrhenius at Sweden's Nobel Institute for Physical Chemistry, has stayed in the U.S. since he came for a "brief visit" in 1914. Known for his work in catalysis, photochemistry, radiochemistry and chemical kinetics, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth...
Actually, the industry has known about Four Comers oil for years. The first well was brought in in 1879. But geologists never thought there was enough to bother with-until the 19505. Then, hunting gas for the rapidly expanding industries of the Los Angeles area, El Paso Natural Gas moved in. Soon it hit a big gas pocket in the San Juan Basin, built a pipeline to Los Angeles. Within a few years it had lines out to 3,000 wells in a system so intricate that it looked like a page from Gray's Anatomy...
...original Bluebeard.*A dedicated researcher, Durtal himself dabbles in the same black arts that Gilles de Rais practiced- for De Rais, found guilty of murder and executed in 1440, seems to have attracted disciples in 19th century Paris. The core of their infamy is the bizarre and blasphemous rite known as the Black Mass, in which every imaginable obscenity is committed and the Eucharist itself is invoked to bring the celebrants closer not to God but to Satan...