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Glaciers move only inches a year and, besides, on orders of the Swiss government, Geologist Auguste Lombard last year examined Allalin and reported that the great ice sheet was retracting, not expanding...
...confirmed dead and 83 missing, and they feared there would be no other survivors. Said one worker who had luckily escaped: "The poor devils never had a chance. Those not killed outright must have frozen to death in a matter of hours." At a news conference in Geneva, Geologist Lombard said that the disaster had been "completely unpredictable...
...Hollywood, Joseph Gotten, Gregory Peck, Fred Astaire, Carole Lombard, Joan Fontaine and Myrna Loy advanced with Selznick's help. From abroad came Ingrid Bergman. But far and away, Selznick's most-discussed discovery was actually not his but his brother Myron's. In 1938 G.W.T.W. had gone into production with the hunt for an actress to play Scarlett O'Hara still in full cry.* While the old sets on Selznick's 40-acre lot in Culver City, Calif., were being fired and thus providing the climactic scene of the burning of Atlanta, Myron emerged through...
...under a "cage" of black chiffon, latticed with black velvet. Another black and white effect, frequently mistaken for a painting when it was standing still, was the calfskin coat by Furrier Jacques Kaplan, stenciled by Op Painter Richard Anuszkiewicz in a dotty pattern that focused disturbingly on Mrs. Lee Lombard's pretty kidneys...
...Francoise (38-23-36) Dorléac, 22, Deneuve's vivacious sister, has a funny-bone that suggests a blend of Carole Lombard and Kay Kendall. Her body is long and sinewy, and she prances when she walks, but her hair is her fortune. It covers her face like a sheep dog's, gets in her mouth when she talks, floats in her own prop wash as she capers ahead of That Man from Rio. Showing no face at all, only hair, she read for the lead in the Paris production of Gigi...