Word: paula
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year there are about 28,000 fatal accidents in U.S. homes. Most dangerous places, says the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., are the bedroom, kitchen and stairs: "The much-maligned bathroom [is] a relatively unimportant factor." ¶When Rancher Jack E. Johnson of Santa Rosa, N. Mex. took his wife Paula 20, to Santa Fe, doctors knew that she was doomed by acute yellow atrophy of the liver, doubted that they could save her unborn offspring. They tried anyway, and just before Mrs. Johnson died they delivered, by Caesarean section, three boys, each around 3¾ lbs. This week, the triplets...
...last will & testament of Adolf Hitler, drawn and signed on his last day in his Berlin bomb shelter (April 29, 1945), is valid. The will left his estate to the Nazi Party or the state government succeeding him. Among the losers under the ruling: a Swiss publisher and Frau Paula Hitler-Wolf, a stepsister, who sold the Swiss exclusive publishing rights to the record of Hitler's dinner-table conversations. The result: no copyright protection. A German publisher, out with a pirated edition, can keep right on selling...
...chose a less exacting and less exciting variation, The Sugar Plum Fairy, her technique was flawless. To Les Sylphides, she brought more spirit and charm; Michel Fokine's choreography includes a series of tours en l'air which Markova handled beautifully. At one point, however, she tangled with Paula Lloyd who is a more angular, energetic dancer, and who is not particularly well suited to this genre of ballet...
Freshmen elected members to this committee as follows: Holmes, Helen Gardiner and Joan Rubinstein; Cabot, Anne Tyler and Ernestine Woodward; Eliot, Betty-Jo Linch; Whitman, Paula Morse and Anne Newman; Bertram, Carol Kirsch; Briggs, Sally Huntington and Nancy Leet; Barnard, Jeanne Jason and Virginia Winstead; Moors, Mary Jane Richards and Eleanor Smith; Commuters, Joan Harvey and Jeanmaric MacKelvie...
...Patricia McCormick, already winner of the women's springboard-diving title, climbed the ladder, and with a superb exhibition (e.g., a running, flying one-and-a-half somersault with pike, a handstand with forward cut-through half-gainer layout) took first place in the high-diving contest. Paula Jean Myers and Mrs. Juno Stover Irwin took second and third to make the sweep...