Word: laurels
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...intensely conscious of her own desirability, and sauntered along as if all the bungalows were filled with rich old men peeking from behind the curtains. Apparently she was convinced that Laurel Avenue was as likely a place as any other for her to be selected for ... a life of well-financed debauchery...
Died. Oliver Norvell ("Babe") Hardy, 65, chubby, splenetic half of the inseparable team of Laurel & Hardy, who churned out (1927-45) about 300 silent and talkie slapstick films (Babes in Toyland, Way Out West, The Devil's Brother, Blockheads) ; of the effects of a paralytic stroke he had in September, 1956; in North Hollywood. Georgia-born, bulbous Ollie sang on showboats while studying law, eventually wended his way via vaudeville villainry to Hollywood where he met (1919) skinny, sad-eyed Stan Laurel, onetime understudy to Charlie Chaplin. Two of America's few genuinely creative comedians, interested more...
...Manila politicians predict that at a certain point Garcia will step aside in favor of someone who will gratify his real ambition, a seat in the Supreme Court. This someone might be either Nacionalista Party Chief Senator Eulogio Rodriguez, or adroit old Yaleman (Law School '20) José Laurel Sr., who was puppet President during the Japanese occupation. Another eager to run is Magsaysay's old enemy Claro Recto, who was puppet Foreign Minister. It was not an impressive lineup...
...indeed signed a secret pact. Disillusioned by the corruption around him while serving as Defense Minister in the Liberal government of President Elpidio Quirino, Magsaysay agreed to bolt the Liberal Party and accept the Nationalist Party nomination for President. But in his pact with the Nationalists' José Laurel and Recto and Senator Lorenzo Tañada of the Citizen's Party, Magsaysay had made no stipulation about one term, he said. In fact, he told TIME'S James Bell last week, "Laurel and Tañada came to ask me to lead a military coup...
Shapely Tenley Albright, 21, once a polio victim, now Olympic figure-skating champion (first U.S. woman to win that laurel), announced her withdrawal from rink competition. After only three years as a brilliant premed student at Radcliffe college, Skater Albright has been accepted by Harvard Medical School, will enter it this autumn, aims to go into some branch of children's medicine...