Word: mel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next night Eddie's pals, Mel Ferrer and his wife Audrey Hepburn, threw a party at the hotel. With half of Hollywood in the hall, Fisher sounded nervous. But an overflow audience forgave occasional flatfalls when he sang the second chorus of That Face! to Liz. She sat, hauntingly convalescent and subject to drafts in her well-cleaved evening dress, chatting with her physician, Dr. Rex Kennamer. Listeners were visibly moved; Eddie, who made a million by having the sort of face that middle-aged ladies want to put through college, probably will have no trouble financing a graduate...
Ever since 1948, skivvy-clad sprinters have strained to get a stride in front of Mel Patton's sizzling 9.3 sec. world record for the 100-yd. dash. Although ten men have matched his time,* no one yet has raced past Patton into the record book. But this year the old champ has a new, more dangerous challenger: San Jose State's cocky Dennis Johnson, a whippet-fast Jamaican who is undefeated in eleven straight races, and this month became the first runner in history to tie Patton's world record four times in a single season...
...brought Melánthios, chopped with swords to cut his nose...
Less splashy but longer established are Mel Evans and George deKay, contractors who dream up nonbook ideas, hire authors and editors, and sell the product to publishing houses. The merchandise consists mostly of such night-table cannonballs as Fateful Moments, an anthology of traumata from Joan of Arc to Helen Keller, and the Great Treasury of American Writing, warmed-over heart warmers compiled by Louis Untermeyer...
Born. To Audrey Hepburn, 31. elfin, Brussels-born actress, and Mel Ferrer, 42, peripatetic actor-director: their first child (his fifth), a son; in Lucerne, Switzerland...