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While Constancy's mother (Miranda Samples) attempts to connect her love-sick daughter with Dr. Daly, one love approaches fulfillment: Alexis (H. Thomas Bell), son of Sir Marmaduke, will soon wed Alien (Carolyn W. Kimball). But Alexis, cursed with ideas, thinks indiscriminate and widespread marriage will bring all earthly joys and accordingly engages a respectable family sorcerer (Peter Skolnik) to enamour the villagers of each other. The results are lively Gilbert and Sullivan...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: The Sorcerer | 4/19/1963 | See Source »

...Bertram; Carol D. Goodman '64, Aimee M. Wilson '64, Briggs Elizabeth M. Denny '66, Nancy K. Nichols '64, Camille F. Staciva '65, Cabot; Janet B. Darley '63, Virginia S. Jordan '64, Mary F. Winsor '65, Comstock; man '64, Emily L. Delman '66, Norris '65, Holmes; Helen S. Miranda C. Sampsell '65, man '65, Moors; Evelyn R. Rosamond Welchman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RGA Delegates Chosen | 3/29/1962 | See Source »

...able to do things better with our own hands." With these nationalistic words, Brazilian Financier Celso Rocha Miranda, 43, took control of Panair do Brasil away from Pan American World Airways. Though Pan Am retained its 30% holdings in Panair, Miranda bought up the other 70%, mostly from Panair's Brazilian directors, for an estimated $5,000,000. A self-made millionaire-he is Brazil's biggest insurance broker-elegant Celso Rocha Miranda has ordered eight French Caravelle medium-range jets to put his new enterprise on a competitive footing with rival Brazilian airlines Varig and Real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: PERSONAL FILE | 7/14/1961 | See Source »

...ether from a spray bomb. "I went to another party dressed as a Roman girl," she explained in a shout above the din, "but it's hard to do bumps in a toga." From another table top near by, a handsome young matron in a white Carmen Miranda outfit went right on wiggling her bare midriff as she confided that she had left her three children with her husband's parents. "Eight years I've been coming," she boasted, tossing off still another glass of whiskey. "Only once, when I was pregnant, did I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: Too Hot for Rubies | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

...Cabanas, 40 miles to the west, Captain Clodomiro Miranda Mendiela, a rebel veteran, defected with 200 soldiers. Castro rushed up 2,000 men and heavy mortars, after 48 hours captured wounded Captain Miranda with ten men. ¶Near Cienfuegos, five minutes after a Cubana Airlines DC-3 took off northward to Havana, 140 miles away, four men and two women passengers produced guns and tried to force the plane to Miami. The ship crash-landed, and the dash to freedom ended. A day later, after a kangaroo trial, the four men were sentenced to die. ¶In Las Villas province...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Spontaneous Combustion | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

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