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...family. Jacy Florister, 27, an ex-child star dangling rebelliously from maternal apron strings, has long wanted to know more about his deceased British father, whom his mother always refers to as "a moron." When poolside sex and liquor kill mother. Jacy quits Hollywood and flies to England to scratch around for his "roots." He not only digs up the Florister clan, a prolific, Barrymoreish brood whose blood lines rival the "begats," but also the girl of his dreams, a brunette witch of a first cousin named Olive...
...Hutchinson-Central High School and earned a diploma in one year. In June 1954, after another hitch in the WACs, she entered Syracuse University as a sociology major, this week graduated with a creditable "B" average. Total time it took her to get a B.A. after starting from scratch: three years...
...perish by the sword. Such is the law of the Russian land, and such it will always be." Following the tactics of General Gallieni, who defended Paris against the Germans in 1914, Zhukov requisitioned every automotive vehicle he could find in Moscow, including the Kremlin limousines, and put a scratch army of volunteers on the Moscow-Mozhaisk road. He brought the Siberian army across on the trans-Siberian railroad and deployed them in five columns around Moscow. The fresh, well-officered Siberians pushed Von Bock's columns back out of artillery range of the capital. Then the Russian winter...
...Scratch. Goldwyn has never pinched his moviemaking pennies in his zeal for what he calls "quality." Guys and Dolls, with Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Jean Simmons, Vivian Elaine and 16 Goldwyn Girls, is budgeted at $5,500,000. Goldwyn paid $1,000,000 merely for the screen rights to the Broadway musical and that, as a Goldwyn hireling put it in Runyonese, "is a lot of scratch." It is probably the highest price ever paid for a single film property...
...Head-Scratching Time. At 9:30 that night, 50 men meet with Graves for 45 minutes. More detailed weather maps and the latest weather reports are presented. The product of a battery of electronic calculating machines, which have been fed a vast assortment of statistics on weather, explosive force and other factors, are produced for digestion and decision. Each key man in the room gives his opinion. Then Graves turns to eight top-level scientists in the first row-among them ballistic experts, meteorologists and health physicists. "They usually mumble that they believe we should go," says Graves. "Then...