Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school records of men from various colleges. But it uses the aptitude test more as a check against college grades than as a factor weighted equally with the marks as at Harvard. Yale is also inclined to rate secondary criteria--college activities and recommendations--little higher than does its sister school...
Michael Mann, 34, youngest son of Author Thomas Mann (see BOOKS), chose the Santa Monica High School auditorium for his American debut as a concert violist when he returns from Austria this month. Scheduled to share the program with him: Pianist Yaltah Menuhin, sister of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin...
Jennifer Jones, 31, carefully groomed by Husband David Selznick ever since The Song of Bernadette for top dramatic roles, has serious ambitions as an actress. Her next part: Sister Carrie, opposite Sir Laurence Olivier. Notable offscreen achievement: her recent tour of Korea, visiting over 4,000 wounded soldiers, -with none of the publicity ballyhoo that usually attends Hollywood's overseas missions of mercy...
...Face in the Window. Her oldest sister, Beatrice, was married to a New York photographer named Larry Tarr, and when17-year-old Ava came visiting in 1940, he was fascinated by his sister-in-law, shot dozens of pictures of her. Enter the agent of fate, one Barney Duhan, then a clerk in Loew's New York legal department. One day Duhan's eyes were arrested by the picture of a girl in Photographer Tarr's show window. "It was the face of the kind of girl you want to marry," recalls Duhan. "It was vibrant...
...McBirnie's answer: Cain must have married his sister. The only woman in the world at that time not his sister or his niece would have been his mother...