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...consistent, considerate care. ¶ The story of a young mother with a triple personality. Drs. Corbett H. Thigpen and Hervey M. Cleckley of Augusta, Ga. told of a patient whom they called Eve White who had a second personality, "Eve Black," and a third known simply as "Jane." Prim and proper Eve White seemed to be unaware of the existence of Eve Black, but in the Eve Black phase she became coquettish and informal to the point of recklessness. Moreover, Eve in the third person. Sample quote: "When Black knew Eve White, and spoke...
...country home and city apartment. Richard Wattis, his face, in an interminable, self-satisfied pucker, also has a dual identity, keeping the two separate with a bit more verve than Redgrave. Joan Greenwood and Dorothy Tutin are the befuddled fiances of the two slightly dishonest gentlemen. Both are ridiculously prim and appropriately fatuous...
...Pleasure Island (Paramount) is a World War II romance that deals with a battle between 1,500 marines and three British girls on a South Pacific island. When the leathernecks land on the island in a peaceful invasion, the only real foe they encounter is the girls' prim and proper father (Leo Genn), a plantation owner who is determined to protect his unkissed daughters from the advances of the enemy. But nature takes its course, and the three fun-loving girls (Joan Elan, Audrey Dalton, Dorothy Bromiley) find romance with three personable marines (Gene Barry, Don Taylor, Peter Baldwin...
...east, the Federal Civil Defense Administration had built a simulated suburb: two typical frame houses, looking prim and white among the yucca trees. Nearby a typical signpost read Elm & Main. Typical U.S. cars were spotted in the imaginary parking places of the imaginary town...
...prim, convent-educated London typist, Pierre-Joël Delaitre was all that a storybook French nobleman should be: tall, educated, tastefully dressed, charming, wealthy. To those who knew him better, he was also mean, hot-tempered, pampered, and a wastrel. Reared in luxury at the 18th century Château de Mainténiac, Pierre was the scourge of the neighborhood-borrowing the tenants' farm horses to race across country, frightening the villagers of nearby Préchâtel by roaring through their marketplace in his racing car. He frittered away a fortune and tried to recoup...