Word: navel
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...blame the Trib for making it up," said Reporter Wright. "What else could they do when we had the case all sewed up?" Actually, the case seemed far from sewed up. Chicago police records showed that as a baby Mary Agnes Moroney had an operation for a ruptured navel, and doctors said it would probably have left a lifetime scar. Mrs. McClelland has no such scar. The Richmond (Calif.) Independent printed a story saying that Mary's foster mother got her from a foundling home 2y½ears before the kidnaping, though she could produce no records to prove...
...straight man for her pressagent in a campaign for a zippier reputation. She is glad, she told newsmen in a Hollywood press conference, that in her new picture, My Wife's Best Friend, she has the role of an Egyptian belly dancer and wears a topaz in her navel. "I've been presented as terribly nice, a good actress, wife and mother," said she. "This is wonderful-but it's not interesting, is it?" Hereafter, she would like to be known as a glamour girl-a sexy type who gets fan mail "that says let me have...
...bits of amber. And not all the clients of brujas are unlettered Indians. A U.S. woman living in Taxco went to a bruja recently to get something to cure her little granddaughter's chronic car sickness. The prescription: a copper coin plastered to the child's navel. According to the grandmother, the charm worked like a charm...
...discs). The question was what to put in it. The obvious answer was to prowl through nearly 50 years of sales files and figures, pick out its "alltime favorites." Victor's selections, announced last week, seemed to put the U.S.'s musical brow somewhere between chin and navel. The first eight: Strauss's The Blue Danube (conducted by Leopold Stokowski); La Donna è Mobile, from Verdi's Rigoletto (sung by Caruso); Carry Me Back to Old Virginny (sung by Marian Anderson); Franz Liszt's Liebestraum (performed by the First Piano Quartet); Victor Herbert...
Captain Carroll T. Bonny retired last summer as the University's N.R.O.T.C. director and concluded 31 years in the service in the Navy. Captain Douglas V. Glading, assistant chief of the Bureau of Navel Personnel, was named as his successor...