Word: palming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that had played it cozy all through the race, lying back waiting for the front runners to falter. Index of Performance prize, for the car that came closest to the theoretical limit of its performance, .went to a tiny (748 cc.) OSCA driven by a prudent couple from West Palm Beach named Alejandro and Isabelle de Tomaso...
...teak, tobacco and oil. The world's largest flower, rafflesia, with a diameter of 3 ft., blooms on Madura. The red-brown soil of Java (pop. 52,000,000), terraced with unbelievable ingenuity, produces two rice crops a year. The warm seas send long rollers crashing on the palm-fringed shores of Ternate, with its burgeoning fields of nutmeg and pepper; Sumba, with its fragrant sandalwood; Borneo, with its vast, barely tapped treasure house...
Like most Hollywood stars, he is thoroughly pampered. Last fall when he caught a cold, he was shipped to Palm Springs for the cure. His manners are perfect. When the Fury staff gave a set party recently, Fury roamed politely from group to group, nibbled at a bowlful of carrots and celery and never took a drink. More alert than some of the actors he has to work with, he can master a routine after only two or three run-throughs. For TV Fury has had to kick a club out of a villain's hand while running near...
...Cliff. Born the son of a diet-faddist physician on a ranch near Palm Springs, Calif., Gibson grew up haunted with "recurrent dreams about clawing my way up the face of a cliff." At 18 he clawed his way onto the old Los Angeles Record because "at the time I was under the misapprehension that being on an afternoon paper meant that you worked only in the afternoon." Ever since, through numberless odd jobs on newspapers and in radio, he has been getting up "at the crack of dawn and hating every morning...
...keeping with old-line Hollywood etiquette, Gossipist Louella O. Parsons announced formally that the mayor of Palm Desert, Calif, (pop. 3,000), Old Groaner Bing Crosby, 53, and his bride of almost four months, Cinemactress Kathy (Operation Mad Ball) Grant Crosby, 24, are expecting a little wailer in August. Flashed Lolly: "Kathy said that either a girl or a boy would be welcome." The rest of the press caught up with Kathy herself as she filled out an enrollment card at Los Angeles City College, where she will bone up on psychology and sociology while waiting for motherhood...