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Word: persons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This Be Me?" asked Cinemactress Sophia Loren in Hearst's Sunday-supplement American Weekly. Telling all in girlish, ghost-ridden prose, the sultry actress offered a first-person glimpse into how a poor, tomboyish beanpole from a little Italian town near Naples eventually blossomed into a bosomy international movie star. Life was hard in the slums, hardest of all when young Sophia learned that Mom and Dad had never married. "A shadow had fallen across my tiny world. Suddenly I was insecure." But a girl friend's advice helped: "I held my head high and my body erect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 6, 1958 | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

Holy Concubines. The novel's first-person narrator, Ray Smith, is 1) a poet, 2) a coast-to-coast freight-hopping, hitchhiking bum, and 3) a species of religious nut who visualizes himself "wandering the world ... in order to turn the wheel of the True Meaning, or Dharma, and gain merit for myself as a future Buddha (Awakener) and as a future Hero in Paradise." He is a bug on prayer, and some of his meditations are beguiling, as when he contemplates "David 0. Selznick, equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Yabyum Kid | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...Each Ismaili person must decide for himself on questions of Communism and Arabism" declared His Highness the Aga Kahn to a panel of newsmen on the CBS program "Face The Nation" at 5:30 p.m. yesterday. "I have final authority in religious matters," explained the Leverett House senior, "but in secular matters, I lead, and do not have absolute authority...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aga Khan Appears on Television, Discusses Place in Moslem World | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...runners on the freshman and varsity squads were aided by eight runners who traveled to Ithaca by automobile to run in the two contests. One of the extras finished ahead of an expense-paid teammate, and counted in the final scoring. The dual meet with Cornell costs $50 per person, including training meals and an air trip to Ithaca...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harrier Manager Disputes Bolles' Economy Drive | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...television studio class will be taught with the same material and by the same method as Slavic A, Lunt said. Members of the television audience will be able to obtain texts and obtain credit for the course without attending the class in person, he stated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WGBH to Televise Lunt Russian Class | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

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