Word: mabel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Died. Mabel Dodge Sterne Luhan, 83, who won an eccentric's reputation as a patroness of the great, the good, and the utter frauds in arts and letters, drawing them all to her pre-World War I salons in Florence and New York, in turn becoming involved in three tormented marriages, countless love affairs, desperate attempts at psychoanalysis, and a dozen mystical philosophies; after a long illness; in Taos, N. Mex. Once described as a "species of headhunter" by Malcolm Cowley, she brought the likes of Lincoln Steffens, John Reed, Isadora Duncan, Gertrude Stein and Walter Lippmann together...
Pioneer Spirit. "We love all the things you can do out here," says Dr. Chester L. Meade, 76, a tanned, lithe, white-haired man who gave up his dental practice in Mason City, Iowa, and moved to Sun City last November. His wife Mabel chimed: "People say, 'But don't you miss Mason City?' Those dear friends, yes, but not Mason City. We're not lonely at all, and the people are so friendly here...
...told, there are seven Boyer brothers, and three others have so far tried their hand at professional baseball. Two more are on the way up. "Everybody tells me," says Mrs. Mabel Boyer, "that each of my boys turns out a little better than the next older one." On the chance that Mama is right, scouts from 14 major-league clubs have visited Alba this season, to watch Ronnie Boyer, 17, play a dazzling third base for the Alba High School Wildcats. Ronnie's batting average: a lusty .500. The scouts had only to shift their gaze...
...assurance of Phil Silvers, he stalks his way through a number like "Think of the Time I Save." His real triumph, though, (it's perhaps the high spot of the whole show) is the fanatic "I'll Never Be Jealous Again," where, steeled to devotion by a secretary, Mabel (Barbara Charakian), he sweeps the woman into one of the deftest, suavest soft-shoe bits since Eddie Foy created the role of Hinesy...
...MABEL A. CRONQUIST White Plains...