Word: piers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jampacked session on Navy Pier, four experts led by Vaccinventor Jonas Salk pronounced a favorable verdict. One year and 40 million inoculations after the initial flurry of accidents, controversy and fumbling, the vaccine has been vindicated. Said Dr. Salk in an unwontedly cautious, indirect statement: "Inferences that the theoretical considerations were unsound or were not applicable . . . seem not to have been supported by time...
...Limb. In Chicago, after making personal appearances among 1,150 exhibits stretched over five miles of the Navy Pier, Ruth Elaine Conte abdicated as queen of the National Restaurant Association's convention, handed her crown over to N.R.A. President Marion Isbell, bawled, "That's enough; my feet hurt...
...retrieved his cap with dignity from under a picture of Stalin and walked firmly down the gangway, carrying himself like a piece of priceless porcelain and bearing farewell gifts of caviar and whale's teeth. "Don't bother our distinguished guest," said genial Host Solianik to pier-side reporters. "He's still enjoying the pleasures of the table...
Dwarfed by the hulking form of the American Export liner Constitution, a crowd of hundreds thronged Pier 84 in Manhattan one foggy day last week. Man, woman and teen-ager alike, they were waiting for a glimpse of the movie queen (Grace Patricia Kelly) who was sailing to Monaco to wed the reigning Prince (His Serene Highness Rainier III). Two hours before sailing time, Grace arrived in a black limousine, wearing a beige wool suit, a white straw hat shaped like a mushroom, and a radiant look. Not far to the rear came a retinue of 80-friends, relatives, business...
Married. Marisa Pavan, 23, lissome Italian film star (The Rose Tattoo), twin sister of Cinemactress Pier Angeli; and Jean Pierre Aumont (real name: Jean Pierre Salomons), 46, wavy-haired French actor (The Heavenly Twins, Lili); she for the first time, he for the second (his first: the late Cinema Siren Maria Montez); in Santa Barbara, Calif...