Word: perrott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Room for One More (Warner) makes an entertaining, sentimental comedy out of Anna Perrott Rose's 1950 bestseller about the trials and triumphs of foster parenthood as she and her husband experienced them. Playing the big-hearted Roses, Gary Grant and Betsy Drake (who are married in real life but have no children) apply limited funds and unlimited patience to raising two foster problem children, plus three of their...
...grant came from an old Canta-Drigian named Frank Duerdin Perrott. When Perrott first made his offer in 1919 -at the start of the spiritualistic inquiries of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle-the university huffily said no; it suspected a hoax. In 1927-the year Perrott died-Cambridge relented. In the 24 years since...
...time, however, only two acceptable scholars have been found. Last week, Cambridge was looking for a third fellow to carry on the quest for what Perrott denned as "the existence of supernormal powers of cognition or action in human beings in their present life, or the persistence of the human mind after bodily death...