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...lioness, one of the queen beasts of her time and now the subject of a lively movie biography that should leave audiences purring with satisfaction. Heroine of two bestsellers by Joy Adamson, wife of a senior game warden in Kenya, Elsa began her well-documented career as an orphan cub, became a 300-lb. lapful of love and affection, but ultimately returned to her wild, natural way of life. The clincher of this zoological success story is that Elsa, once taught by her human protectors how to stalk and kill, remained their friend until her death in 1961, paying them...
...Reoviruses were so named in 1959 by Cincinnati's Polio Vaccine Developer Albert B. Sabin from the initials for "respiratory, enteric, orphan," because they are associated with odd sniffling and diarrheal disorders in men and monkeys but cause no known natural disease...
...locate each one. "Six feet eight inches, great hands, mother and father divorced, sister likes Fanny Farmer cherries," the friend began. Bubas instantly identified the boy. The game went on and on, until the friend described a boy "6ft. 10-in., 240 Ibs., averaged 32.1 points per game, an orphan with one gold tooth in front." Vic's brow wrinkled. "There is no such boy," he said finally. "Right," sighed his friend...
...cold, it was because he was unwarmed. At ten, he was an orphan in a strange land. His father had been solicitor to the British embassy in Paris. His mother, afflicted with chronic tuberculosis, had had children at regular intervals on doctors' advice -pregnancy was thought to be good for tuberculosis in those days-and eight years after Somerset's birth she died. His father died soon thereafter. The boy was shipped off to England to become the unwanted ward of an uncle...
Personally, De Staël absorbed many shocks. His father, a Czarist cavalry general, and his mother fled the Russian Revolution only to leave him an orphan in Poland when he was eight Family friends sent him through Jesuit schools m Belgium, where he began to study art. After wartime service with the Foreign Legion in Tunisia, the demobilized artist returned to Paris with a mistress, Jeannine Guilloux. Often he painted her skeletal beauty. "I wondered what it was I had painted," he mused, a living dead creature or a dead living creature...