Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A man who neither expects nor inspires pomp & circumstance, he still likes to sit up late over a poker table, drinks branch water and bourbon, and roars when his military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan, tells an off-color joke. He has learned to duck embarrassing questions, but he is...
King Frederik IX of Denmark, 49, made good use of his early naval training during a minor domestic crisis at Amalienborg Palace. When the curtains in the valet's room caught fire, the agile monarch tore downstairs, threw a glass of water on the blaze, then doused it with...
Lily-White Lynn. Young Patrick learned to skate in British Columbia. But from the time he was five years old his mother was dead set against his choosing hockey as a career. Says Lynn: "Mother didn't want to see her lily-white boy mixed up with those rough...
Last week the public learned that five atomic scientists have had their eyes dimmed by cyclotron cataracts. Three of the victims had been working with the University of Illinois' cyclotron. Physicist Lloyd Smith, now 26, helped install it in 1943, and he did not notice a cloudiness in one...
Newcomer Betsy Drake seems to have studied, but not learned, the tricks and inflections of the early Hepburn. Her exaggerated grimaces supply only one solid laugh-when Hero Grant mimics them cruelly and accurately. In the past, Gary Grant has shown a talent for quietly underplaying comedy. In this picture...