Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...favored sister Arlene, who is three years older. She turned moody and inward, took to her room to scribble poetry-a kind of release to which she has resorted ever since. Recalls Actress Novak: "I was real skinny, real anemic. In school I was always in the last row or next-to-last row, according to the marks. I was seated with the jerks...
...Embryologist Etienne Wolff, of Paris' College de France, is to make monsters. His principal items of equipment are an X-ray machine, a few delicate instruments and an incubator stocked with fertile hens' eggs. The results are enshrined along the walls of his spotless laboratory in row upon row of glass jars filled with alcohol. The jars contain hundreds of monstrous chicks-chicks with one eye or three eyes or no eye at all, with four legs or three legs or two legs fused into one. There are two-headed chicks and three-headed chicks. Professor Wolff created...
...sister Whisper. And in the first libel suit that has yet included Confidential's 3,000 California distributors as well as the magazine, Screen Star Maureen (The Quiet Man) O'Hara asked for $1,000,000 in damages for a March story that claimed she once picked row 35 of Hollywood's Grauman theater for an off-screen amour...
...Mexico, Mo. (pop. 13,500) three months ago, marched into Washington for a rally last week, and it could hardly have picked a fitter time. Reason: last week the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that its retail price index had crept upward for the ninth month in a row, hitting a record peak of 119.6 (the 1947-49 average = 100) as compared with 115.4 a Year...
Climax of the birthday celebration was a Los Angeles performance of his latest work, a ballet score titled Agon (to be given in New York next fall). Agon shows just how far he has gone with tonal-row composition. A 20-minute work, it is scored for "twelve dancers and twelve notes," calls for the largest orchestra since Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements (1945). The fast, heavily percussioned score is cast in patterns of enormous rhythmic complexity. In its sheer harmonic and rhythmic invention, its virility, its brilliance of orchestration, the work is among the most dazzling music...