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...Decorous Pin-Up. Maude Adams was only nine months old when she first appeared before an audience. In Salt Lake City, where she was born, a player carried her on stage in a production called The Lost Child (Maude's mother, Annie Adams Kiskadden, was the leading lady). By the time she was 16, famed New York Producer Charles Frohman became Maude's mentor and manager. He helped create the shy, veiled creature whose personal life was an enigma. Frohman's order: "You are not to be interviewed. You are not to be quoted . . . People will wonder...
...loved actress. Sir James M. Barrie, a boy who never grew up, wrote the charming plays in which she was best -The Little Minister, Quality Street, What Every Woman Knows, A Kiss for Cinderella, and above all, Peter Pan. She became the goddess of a nationwide cult, a decorous pin-up in saloons and glittering restaurants. President Taft, like thousands of other people, kept her picture in his study...
...know how much he loved us. He would be so frightened if I did not get to him quickly ... I couldn't leave my babies behind . . ."At the hospital, doctors stitched up Elizabeth Parsons' wounds, but she tried to stab herself to death with a safety pin...
...face pale with cold and exhaustion, 40-year-old Ben Hogan teed off for the last round. The critical play came on the par-four fifth hole, where his second shot hit the green, spun, and dribbled into the deep grass edging a bunker, some 40 ft. from the pin. In trouble, Ben studied the difficult shot from all angles for fully five minutes. Then he hauled out a No. 9 iron, lined up the shot once more, and swung. The ball bounced, rolled boldly toward the hole, struck the back lip, bounced a foot in the air and plunked...
...Soviet Union at various trade conferences has promised to buy big quantities of the consumer goods Europe wants to sell. But whenever businessmen pin the Reds down, it turns out that what they really want is heavy goods either embargoed or in short supply. Even the Socialist British Trades Union Congress minimizes the chances of expanding trade with the East. Last week it reported that all the Moscow conference hullabaloo produced only $20 million worth of new orders, "and these were not mainly for consumer goods...