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When Ike moved on to his first infantry posts and training schools during World War I he began to pick up a reputation as a disciplinarian. Around the age when he courted and married Mamie Geneva Doud, a slender girl with violet eyes (the Douds' maid was provoked one day when "Mr. I-Something" kept calling every 15 minutes), he was finding a new confidence that led him on to command, at 27, the tank training center at Camp Colt, Pa. But soon after Christmas 1920 their first child, Doud Dwight ("Icky"), died of scarlet fever when...
BROOKLYN, Oct. 10--Slender Johnny Kucks beat Brooklyn with a three-hit shutout to win the World Series for the New York Yankees in the seventh game today with the backing of four home runs, including two by Yogi Berra and a grand slammer by Bill Skowron...
...Slender Leyla Gencer, 29, moved about San Francisco's rehearsal stage followed by approving smiles, inviting glances and, among the company's Italian singers, audible coos. The heiress of a family of Turkish landowners, she gave up the idea of developing her voice when she married a banker. But in 1948 he encouraged her to study at the conservatory. Today she is diva of the Turkish State Opera in Ankara and is known across Europe...
...Avery C. (for Comfort) Adams, 58, moved up from president and chief executive of the nation's 13th-ranking steel company, Pittsburgh Steel (ingot capacity: 1.3 million tons), to the presidency of the fourth largest, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. (ingot capacity: 6.2 million tons). Yaleman Adams, a slender six-footer, started as an open-hearth laborer in 1919 at the old Trumbull Steel Co., where he worked up to assistant general sales manager. Later, he held vice-presidencies with Inland Steel Co., U.S. Steel Corp., Portsmouth Steel Corp., Detroit Steel Corp. Adams caught the fancy of Jones & Laughlin...
...Audrey Hepburn, with her precocious child's head set upon a swanlike neck, looks the part. She is perfectly the Natasha described by Tolstoy: "A dark-eyed little girl, plain, but full of life, with her wide mouth, her childish bare shoulders ... her black lair brushed back, her slender arms . . ." In her playing, Audrey catches the gamine qualities of Natasha, and her softness. What is lacking is the steely courage that would let Natasha brand her flesh with a red-hot iron to prove her love. Instead of a total commitment to life, there is more often a quiet...