Word: pearle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SPACIOUS SKIES by Pearl S. Buck with Theodore F. Harris. 221 pages. John...
...years ago, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck hired Theodore F. Harris, a ballroom-dancing instructor, to teach her the rumba. Widow Buck, now 74, took a motherly interest in Harris, now 36, named him president and executive director of her tax-exempt Pearl S. Buck Foundation, which since 1964 has raised $155,000 to help care for about 1,000 of the hundreds of thousands of rejected, mixed-blooded "Amerasian" youths who since 1945 have been fathered by American servicemen from Korea to Viet Nam. Mrs. Buck and Harris swung across the U.S. last year on a fund-raising tour that actually...
...Some of Pearl's pearls...
...tables spread out on the thick Bermuda and St. Augustine grass in front of the ranch house, chatting, sniffing the air, shaking hands, sitting to gobble up a hefty plate of barbecue himself. Muzak wafted with the river breeze through the live oaks, and news men sipped the local Pearl beer and soft drinks...
Touching Dossiers. The sixth in a long line of Joseph Cornells, he is the son of a textile manufacturer. He never studied art formally; indeed, the closest he came to any form of the arts was watching Francis X. Bushman and Pearl White star in pre-Hollywood films made in open lots in Nyack, N.Y., before World War I. As a young man he followed in his father's footsteps for a while, selling mostly woolens. But the Depression wiped out his job, and he began filling his boxes...