Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood, Cinemactress Judy Garland, after four years and one child, announced the breakup of her second marriage, to Director Vincente (The Clock) Minnelli (No. 1: Composer David Rose). Said she: "I'm very sorry, but it's true; we're happier apart...
...figure of a girl frightened by a snake, done at Höchst about 1770, might be ill-proportioned, but no one could miss its rococo liveliness. The flowery Music Lesson, modeled at Chelsea from a painting by François Boucher (see cut), and the Sevres portrait of M. Fagon (Louis XIV's doctor) neatly blended wit and workmanship. Five hundred such pieces, crammed into three small rooms at the Met, made a sparkling show...
...normal give & take relationships between normal people. Little things like the good-natured kidding of fellow workers were strange and exciting. He now enjoys meeting people, has made some friends, but has still made no dates with girls. With one or more operations to go, John says: "I'm still no Adonis. But I like the way people treat...
...face has given him a new life.*Said Dr. Royal Grossman: "I felt his appearance was a factor in his maladjustment ... He reacted in the only way he knew how. It's like hauling off a'-d punching the wall when you're frustrated. I'm gratified with the way he's getting along up to now. If he lives by society's conventions and laws for ten years I'll know we have accomplished something." Surgeon Meany is more optimistic about a lasting happy ending: "John was an apt case for psychological...
...pride of Belleville, Ark., wearing a huge cud of tobacco in one cheek, forgot at times that it was only an exhibition game. "When I step on the field," Sain once said, "I'm not making a social call. I'm a professional baseball player doing what I'm paid for, which is to get batters out." Against one Cincinnati batter, he fired his big, jug-handled curve (the best in baseball), then a screwball, and then the fast one. The umpire's thumb jerked upward; the batter, Outfielder Frank Baumholtz, was out on three pitched...