Word: plumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stepped out for the final 36 holes, his tanned face furrowed, a spectator murmured: "He looks like the wrath of God." Knowing how he hates distractions, Cotton's plump, wealthy wife (daughter of an Argentine cattle baron) followed him at a safe distance. He had a four-stroke lead to protect...
Born. To Maria Manton Riva, née Sieber, 23, plump onetime actress daughter of svelte Cinemactress Marlene Dietrich, and second husband William Riva, 28, Manhattan scenic artist: their first child (Marlene's first grandchild), a son; in Manhattan. Name: John Michael. Weight...
...another portrait-a self-portrait-held special interest for the great and famous who had felt the stings and stabs of Topolski's pencil. How did the plump, 41-year-old artist see himself? In the portrait, Topolski pictured himself in a highly dramatic light, modestly or perhaps fearfully shielding his eyes from the glare. "I am," he explained to a critic, "an awed, mystified, laughing and crying member of the humanity that watches and participates in the spectacle of history, but is unable to direct it or reason...
...plump, kindly Robert Morss Lovett is an aged, living monument to the courage, the warm heart-and the poor judgment-of one brand of U.S. liberalism. All Our Years, his expectantly awaited autobiography ("some 23 publishers have expressed a blind but generous faith in this book"), is chiefly important as a record of his personal decency and kindliness. It is the account of a great good will expansive enough to regard even U.S. Communists as well-intentioned...
Died. Olga Samaroff Stokowski, 65, plump, hearty, onetime concert pianist, and Texas-born first wife of Conductor Leopold Stokowski; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Christened Lucy Hickenlooper,* she adopted the Russian name as more appropriate to an artistic career, for 50-odd years taught bankers and clubwomen how to listen to music, and budding pianists how to play...