Word: ma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pretty 21-year-old nurse named Ma Aye Mya (Miss Cool and Pleasant) told the court that the American doctor had forced his nurses to enter into sexual relations. Miss Cool and Pleasant apparently had only hearsay to support this charge. She said that Seagrave had avoided her after she rejected his advances. Defense witnesses for the ailing, 53-year-old physician firmly denied that Seagrave had ever molested his nurses. They further testified that he had been friendly towards Burma's government and army...
...Peiping, the American Fathers of the Divine Word have operated the Roman Catholic Fu Jen University (current enrollment: 1,100). Last week, Peiping radio announced that Fu Jen had become the first of China's 15 missionary-backed universities to be seized by the Communist government. Education Minister Ma Hsu-lun explained blandly: "The government decided to take over ... to protect the people's rights...
Died. Pierre Roy, 70, whose gaily colored, meticulous paintings of unfamiliarly arranged familiar objects,won him recognition as a petit maìtre (Little Master) of modern art; in Milan, Italy...
...fine frontmen, and Art Trappier, Johnny Fields, and George Wein furnish a steady background. But each of the horn-players is outstanding on only one of the three qualities that make up a great jazzman--tone, imagination, and the indefinable "drive." Bailey, from years of playing behind Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, possesses all the taste and tone in the group, ensemble specialist Dickenson has the musical imagination, and Davison alone carries the unit along with his driving-and-rocking school of musicianship...
...NBCTV) and his first appearance on television. Though surrounded by bright young people from current Broadway shows, Cantor looked as durable and sentimental as ever. He re-enacted skits from musicals of the '20s and sang such old favorites as Ain't She Sweet? and Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me. Headlined Variety: "Cantor Sock in Debut ... Vet Showman a TV Natural." A twelve-city Hooper survey rated Cantor eleven points higher than CBS's competing Toast of the Town, long a runner-up to TV's perennial No. 1 attraction, Milton Berle...