Word: manne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Suspicious of the old wives' tale that more babies are born at full moon than other times, Obstetrician Ernest T. Ripp-mann of Lancaster, Pa. checked 9,551 births for a ten-year period, found nothing to it. On the contrary, slightly more babies were born close to the new moon than to the full moon...
Orderly & Properly. There was nothing in Alfried Krupp's sheltered life to prepare him for this ordeal. The first of Gustav's and Bertha's eight children, he grew up in an atmosphere suggestive of Novelist Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks. Kaiser Wilhelm II was his godfather. Young Alfried's world centered around Villa Hugel, which was not only a well-regulated German household to its inhabitants but the focus of social life for the Ruhr. The children saw little of their parents or other children, spent most of their time in the care of teachers...
...relentless glimpse of the Korean war, directed with restraint by Anthony Mann, but hitting every theater seat with the shock of a grenade in a foxhole; with Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray (TIME, April...
Priscilla Foley skillfully portrays Elizabeth Stone's variety of emotions and dignity. Betty Black and Henry Mann decrease the smoothness of the performance by muffing lines; but Linda Gitter as Helen Halsey adds brashness, and Robert Dargie's Col. Keogh and Constance Walsh's Sally add color, humor and vitality...
...Director Anthony Mann and his camera tell a modest story of the Korean war with an intimate intensity that makes every theater seat feel like a foxhole; with Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray (TIME, April...