Word: pies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beate Pie, ora pro nobis [Blessed Pius, pray...
South Africa's Prime Minister Daniel Malan celebrated his 77th birthday in Cape Town's House of Assembly. His wife gave him a homebaked, old-fashioned Boer pie, called a "milk tart"; the Nationalist party bigwigs came through with a desk and a black leather briefcase. In return, Africa-Firster Malan pledged once again to cut the Dominion loose from the British Commonwealth. Said he: "We shall become a republic. We must become a republic...
Once you're in the pie-in-the-face mood, Si Bunce's hickory-smoked, sugar-cured characterization of the woodcutter forced to be a doctor is wonderful. The roguish woodcutter makes the most of his mistaken profession, giving Bunce the chance to leer lasciviously and pinch patients. (The actresses, incidentally, are Radcliffe, not padded males.) Some of the performances in the supporting cast are rather wooden when they are played straight, but luckily none of the performers is above stepping out of character at a propitious moment. James O'Neil's alert directing shows up well in groups scenes...
Guri Lie, blue-eyed, 22-year-old blonde daughter of the U.N.'s Secretary General Trygve Lie, was chosen queen of the 24th annual Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester, Va. The queen's first official duty: to bake a passable apple pie...
Hollywood has a name for such actresses. It calls them "sensitive." For one reason or another, a "sensitive actress" will refuse to do a striptease, or be hit by a custard pie, or perform other trifling tasks often deemed necessary to her art. Helen Hayes had been an outstanding sensitive in her brief flings at Hollywood. Barbara was plainly another. She met all the requirements of the star's life with open rebellion. Even the barbecue grill at her home annoyed her because it was so typically Hollywood. Besides, she says, "I hated being under contract, hated always being...