Word: persons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavy boots moved among them, carefully, almost instinctively checking every construction detail. For no man knows better than Paul Allman Siple that the antarctic tolerates few mistakes, permits even fewer second chances. At 48, Paul Siple (rhymes with disciple) has spent more time on the continent than any other person. He came there first as an eager, wide-eyed Sea Scout with the Byrd expedition of 1928-30; when he leaves it for the sixth time, in February 1958, some 5½ years of polar life will lie behind...
...Wonder What Became of Me (Anita Ellis; Epic LP). A progression of songs threaded on a first-person narrative. Songstress Ellis pretends to recall her childhood, lisps her way through If I Had a Ribbon Bow, works her way through giddy happiness (I Ain't Got No Shame), through fierce, frightening love (I Love You Porgy), and on to final, hopeless reflections about her life in the title song. Songstress Ellis has a flexible voice, a flair for drama, sings well, puts the fantasy across handily...
...Security; United Artists) is a crude thriller that pretends, when it has nothing worse to do, to be a bloody study of juvenile delinquency. The actors all try desperately to talk reet, but somehow it comes out wrong. Actor Quinn is "Big Tom . . . ex-football player, ex-hero, ex-person," who now has nothing to do but "just kind of pleasure myself around." On the night of the wild party he is "coal-mine low," and snarls, "1 gotta tear the world...
...high of $41 billion, the increase was only half last year's $6 billion increase. And in October, for the first time in two years, auto repayments passed new auto loans. Said San Francisco Retailers Credit Association Manager Frank Caldwell: "The average consumer is a smart person; he is not obligating himself too heavily...
...count's shipmates takes him home for dinner on a shore leave in New Orleans in the early 1900s. The shipmate's sister Hilda, an ash-blonde icicle, melts visibly before the zany hothead. Casimir soon spills his top secret: he is a "Divinely Separated person" who has found a "Unifying Purpose" that will give the human race a healthy substitute for war. "That Unifying Purpose," he says, "has got to have a ritual, a symbolism, an exercise, some world-wide activity that is simple and joyful and harmless. And in a lifetime of searching, I have...