Word: slimming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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UNOFFICIAL HISTORY (242 pp.)-Field Marshal the Viscount Slim-David McKay...
DEFEAT INTO VICTORY (468 pp.)-Field Marshal the Viscount Slim-David McKay...
...precise tapestry of Cornelius Ryan's The Longest Day, the historically important memoirs of Ike or Monty have all the vitality of quartermaster supply reports. One of the war's few Great Captains who can hold his own with the professional writers is Viscount William Slim, commander of Britain's "forgotten" Fourteenth Army in Burma...
When Bette Davis first arrived in Hollywood, she was (by her own account) a mousy, 22-year-old virgin with knobby knees, a pelvic slouch, and cold blue bugeyes that radiated intelligence. "She has as much sex appeal," lamented her first studio boss, "as Slim Summerville." But in three overworked decades and some 70 overwrought roles, Bette earned two Oscars, $3,000,000. and a reputation as the first U.S.-born actress to make the movie moguls respect talent and independence in a star. In an age of vamps, she became the Compleat Vixen. But in this autobiography, Bette...
Behind Philadelphia, Chicago and Houston are battling for inclusion in the eight-team National League, with the Cubs holding a slim edge at the moment. Chicago has a number of fine young players like Billy Williams, Ron Santo, and George Altman, but the club has almost nothing in the way of a pitching staff and virtually no manager...