Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hands-and urged them to plow the steep hillsides year after year, planting corn in any and all directions without regard for erosion. Sam Carver was no throwback; he was, if anything, more progressive than most farmers of his generation. But he one-cropped from the earth its precious skin of humus-filled soil and, when he had finished, left it packed with barren red clay fit only for blackberry briars and bodock bushes that grew in tangled profusion...
...that money." Finally, however, he began dating Ann Huffines. On their first date, says Joe, they "talked about the weather, and I liked the way she talked. I've always knowed there was other girls prettier somewhat than she is, but I found out beauty is only skin deep. I know she'll work with me on the farm-some girls wouldn't-and she might even go out and milk a cow." Will Ann help out with the farm correspondence and book work? Says Joe: "Yes, I figger she'll handle all of it except...
...Manhattan's Mt. Sinai Hospital last week, plastic surgeons removed the dressings from the face of a 23-year-old Japanese girl named Shigeko Niimoto and noted with satisfaction that her extensive skin graft had been an almost perfect take. The contours of the girl's face were almost normal again...
...station. There, three days later, her mother found her. With doctors all but wiped out-and the few survivors helpless against disorders they could not diagnose-Mrs. Niimoto took charge. When she tried to remove the tatters of Shigeko's clothing, the burned skin and flesh came off, too. Morning and evening for a month, Mrs. Niimoto anointed her daughter's seared flesh with cooking oil and carefully washed her eyes with bicarbonate of soda. When the ash-grey tissue peeled off, Shigeko's skin was shiny and smoothly lifeless. Eyebrows, lashes and hair were gone. Worst...
...voice as clear and flexible as any in Hollywood. James Whitmore, Jay Flippen, Eddie Albert and Charlotte Greenwood are good in secondary roles, but the real stunner of the show is the heroine, a 21-year-old newcomer from Smithton, Pa. named Shirley Jones. She has a milky, springtime skin, a creamy figure, and a smile like melting butter. Her brook-clear soprano is the best voice in the picture. In her next movie, Carousel, she will also co-star with Gordon MacRae and if they don't watch out they may become the Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald...