Word: linda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When shapely Mignonette (Linda Christian) comes to work for the Bonnards as a maid, Bibi feels the first stirrings of sex. He steals a kiss from Mignonette while she is asleep. He is also falsely accused of drawing a suggestive picture at school. But all ends happily, with Mignonette and Uncle Desmonde in love, grand-père getting out of his sickbed to continue his adventures, and Bibi putting on his first pair of long pants and kissing the little girl next door...
This year marks the first time in recent years that the Annex freshman queen has not been chosen by a board of CRIMSON editors at one of the acquaintance dances. Last year's Miss Radcliffe Linda Bartlett '55, was chosen from a field of five such girls at such a mixer...
Childhood: Dishpan Hands. Dick Nixon hardly seems like an old man, but he is old for his years. He was born in Yorba Linda, near Los Angeles, where his parents had a lemon grove. They wished it had been oranges-which were the promissory golden fruit that had helped attract Dick's maternal grandfather, Quaker Franklin Milhous, to California from his home in Butlerville, Ind. In 1897 he had loaded lumber, doors, windows, cows and horses on a freight car and set out for the promised land. At a Quaker church party, his daughter Hannah met Francis Anthony Nixon...
...Though most physicians agree that alcohol in moderation has some medicinal uses, a group of them who disagree strongly met last week at the College of Medical Evangelists (run by Seventh-Day Adventists) in Loma Linda, Calif. They applauded Chicago's Physiologist Andrew Conway Ivy (no Adventist but a Methodist) when he berated alcohol in any form as a "habit-forming . . . and dangerous drug," which, used to excess, "is degrading to human reason and dignity...
Island of Desire (David Rose; United Artists) defies all the laws of probability by casting shapely Linda Darnell as a waspish spinster. Stunningly photographed in Technicolor, Actress Darnell portrays Lieut. Elizabeth Smythe, a Navy nurse who is washed up on an uninhabited Pacific island after a troopship is sunk during World War II. Washed up with her is a blond, boyish Marine corporal (Tab Hunter...