Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stint on the $64,000 Challenge, answering questions about popular music earned Patty a $32,000 tie with another young actor: Eddie (Music Man) Hodges. By the time The Miracle Worker was ready for casting this summer, Patty had behind her some big TV specials, among them Wuthering Heights and Swiss Family Robinson, and half a dozen Hollywood movies (including The Goddess and Country Music...
Almost nothing is known of Brueghel's life. He became a member of the Antwerp artists' guild in 1551, traveled through Italy the next year. He first supported himself by making sketches for popular engravings, blossomed into genius in the last decade of his life, and died in 1569, before his 45th birthday. He left a wife and two sons. He was self-possessed, a habitual stroller and something of a practical joker; that about completes the record. Brueghel doubtless kept off the center of the stage on purpose: one sees better from the wings...
Died. Rafael Ignacio Arias Blanco, 53, plump, popular Roman Catholic Archbishop of Caracas, whose pastoral letter (1957), indicting Dictator Perez Jimenez for failing to relieve Venezuela's impoverished masses, triggered the opposition groups into action that toppled the dictator; in an auto accident; near Barcelona, Venezuela...
...communist line, but by no stretch of the definition is he a Communist. Fidel Castro is not merely an incompetent guerilla leader; though his executive abilities are questionable he works harder than almost any other chief of state in the world. Fidel Castro is not a god; Cuba's popular magazine, Bohemia, printed a sketch of him, brows furrowed, eyes cast upward, with a light halo about his curly locks, but in the story made a point of denying that he was a reincarnation of Jesus Christ...
Macabre Landscape. To Brisset in the French Alps, where sanatoria dot the landscape like shacks in a gold-rush town, come tuberculosis patients from all over the world. How many fail to return is suggested by the popular nickname of the place: "the cemetery of Europe." In this macabre mountain spot appears the novel's hero: Paul Davenant, a British World War II veteran, lately a Cambridge student, now sick and broke. He is a charity case who, with many others, is supported by an international student association at a sanatorium called Les Alpes. Davenant hopes...