Word: nee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...declared Lauren Bacall recently, piqued at a Hollywood that excluded her from the Pepsi generation and forgot that Bogart was 25 years her senior when they married. As it turned out, she was wrong, but only by nine months. The birth certificate of Lauren Bacall, nee Betty Joan Persky, gives her date of birth as Sept. 16, 1924. As for Tony, the former Bernard Schwartz was born on June 3, 1925. Still, even an aging Lauren Bacall is younger than many of Hollywood's Beautiful People...
...Dickens' Pickwick Papers, which (as Pickwick) David Merrick imported from London last spring and cannily deployed on a pre-Broadway crosscountry tour that has already nearly recouped production costs. Auntie Mame is being put to music as My Best Girl by Jerry (Hello, Dolly!) Herman; and Anya (nee Anastasia) is given voice with a score gleaned from themes by Rachmaninoff. Then there is a pair of transubstantiated movies: Federico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria will become Bob Fosse's Sweet Charity with Gwen Verdon. The Blue Angel, as Sugar City, relocates to New Orleans, with Walter Slezak...
...PATRICK W. NEE...
Then, in the fall of 1956, came Elvis Presley with his flapping hair, three-inch sideburns, and gyrating hips. "Ah wa-ha-hunt yew-hoo, Ah nee-hee-heed yew-hoo," he sang, and millions of teenagers flipped...
Because such business is more promising than shipbuilding, John Brown will be paying less and less attention to the sea. The changing emphasis will reflect its motto-Nee Sorte Nee Fato [Neither by luck nor destiny]-which Lord Aberconway amplifies by adding, "Rather by planning and good work...