Word: oed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blood group (A, B, AB and O) tests cannot prove paternity, nor can they disprove it in every case, said Pathologist Barnes. If the tests of mother's and baby's blood indicate that the father's must be type A, the father could still be any man with type A. But that decisively acquits the 60% of men who have B, AB, or O blood.* Besides the ABO grouping of red cells, blood varies according to whether it contains a factor M (present in 30% of the population), N (in 20%), or both...
...longest (1943-46) and most lurid paternity suits, Comedian Charles Spencer Chaplin was declared by a Los Angeles jury to have fathered Carol Ann (type B), daughter of Cinemaspirant Joan Berry (type A), despite evidence by three court-appointed physicians that this was impossible with his type O blood...
...gimmick by presenting the story as a long flashback, starting with Violetta on her deathbed visualizing the episodes leading up to her final illness. From the first curtain, when a soft light bloomed on the reclining Violetta, to the resignation of Dite alia giovine and the yearning of Parigi, O cara, Callas held her audience in a kind of hushed trance. Her tones were rock firm, aglow with a dozen nuances of passion, from hectic gaiety to quiet sadness. Callas scored an even bigger triumph in Cherubini's Medea. Whirling her heavy cape alternately like a regal robe...
...Budding Showman Mike Todd Jr., 29, announced that he will produce next year's smelliest movie (The Scent of Mystery), using the Smell-O-Visiqn-process developed by a Swiss chemist under contract to the late Mike Todd Sr. Nearest yet to the "feelie" film envisioned by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World (see BOOKS), the process is triggered by soundtrack blips, which release odors through a maze of pipes to the audience-30 odors in 90 minutes for The Scent of Mystery, including flowers, roasting chestnuts, brandy, coffee, shoe polish (the villain will be trapped by smell clues...
...sharp clothes by working on local newspapers, later took "The All America Super Jazz Orchestra" to Mexico. After years of reporting (on the New York Mirror, Birdwell scored a beat on Lindbergh's take-off for Paris), the Bird found his perch as publicity man for David O. Selznick...