Word: misses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wants to take him to Italy for a life of truth and beauty. Nathan would like to go himself, because he is perversely excited by Amy's resemblance to Anne Frank. He imagines a lengthy scenario in which Anne survives Hitler's extermination camps to become Miss Bellette, who reasons that if she were known to be alive, her Diary would be read merely as a teen-age adventure story...
...including one about Tchaikovsky, who thought that the entire building belonged to Music Publisher Gustav Schirmer. "No wonder we composers are so poor," he wrote in his diary. "Mr. Schirmer is rich beyond dreams. He lives in a palace bigger than the Czar's!" There was also old Miss Leo, who lived in a 17-room apartment with her favorite carriage horse, stuffed and mounted, and Princess Mona Faisal, who, when asked her occupation, wrote "Saudi Arabia...
Summer is every man a king and every woman a queen. Maria Elizabeth Julio was named Miss Italian Festival in Baltimore and headed for the pizza stand; Sally Stallings was Queen of the Old Spanish Days Fiesta parade in Santa Barbara, Calif., and rode among 150 floats and strutting flamenco dancers...
...Harvard, Freshman Week depends a lot on how you approach it. You and about 1600 equally nervous, eager, and thoroughly confused people will be subjected to a week of nonstop new things with new people, and even if you never stop moving around there'll be things that you miss, or will want to miss. There are, of course, several ways to cope with Freshman Week, and the pattern you choose will depend on your attitude coming in and how quickly you can adjust to a rather odd situation...
...sign of hope: casting a new version of Little Miss Marker, Director Walter Bernstein resolved to find someone fresh and preferably nonprofessional for the role that made Shirley Temple famous. He found Sara Stimson, 6, at an open casting call. She had never acted before. And she could be anyone's daughter, even yours...