Word: polish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, "Babe" Zaharias turned professional for keeps.† She announced that she had accepted a Hollywood contract to make ten movie shorts on golf for $300,000. The once boyish Babe, now 34 and given to silly hats and nail polish, made it clear that the decision was not entirely her own: "George and I talked it over for a long while and he finally said O.K." George is her 300-lb. husband, known in his wrestling days as the Weeping Greek from Cripple Creek, one of the few men who can sometimes better her average (240 yards...
...year ago, blonde Anne Waterman, fresh out of Vassar, was a little dissatisfied with the life she was leading. In Washington she heard a Polish Embassy official complain about the teacher shortage in Warsaw, and decided to help, because "I wanted to show my family that I could do something worth while...
Until last week the Polish Ministry of Education, which pays her way, had not interfered with what she tried to teach. But presumably she will run afoul of a new Polish law to test the party-line faithfulness of its teachers. Says Anne, who hopes she will be allowed another year on the job: "If I succeed in having even 20 Poles speak English well and understand about America, then I'll have done a good job for the first time in my life...
Married. Josef Cyrankiewicz, 36, bullet-headed, pro-Communist Polish Premier; and blonde, husky-voiced Nina Andrycz, thirtyish, who made her first big hit in The Constant Nymph and is now Warsaw's top leading lady; he for the second time, she for the first; in Warsaw...
...being made to recover individual bones at Ghost Ranch: the entire bonanza is being hewn out in big blocks of rock (one to eight tons each), and shipped to Manhattan. There, in the next few months, experts will remove the matrix of rock around the fossils, and carefully polish and reassemble the skeletons...