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...Many of the famous, and infamous, men of history are people who looked exactly like George Arliss." Even today, when I think of Benjamin Disraeli, I am reminded that he is the spittin' image of Arliss. Of course, I do not think of either one of them very often. Spencer Howell Silver Spring, Md. Liability of Lighting...
When they do become pregnant, many girls simply hide the fact, denying it even to themselves. For Angela Spencer, 16, of Lawndale, reality did not hit home until five months into her pregnancy, when she entered a special school for young mothers. "A lot of the girls had already had their babies," she relates. "When I walked in that classroom, it was like the first time I realized what was happening to me." Unable to grasp their situation, adolescents frequently wait too long even to consider having an abortion. The gravity of such a decision often eludes them...
...Jimmy Stewart to cover the high-society wedding of Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story; in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Hired by MGM in 1937, reportedly as a threat to keep stars Myrna Loy and Norma Shearer in line, she appeared in more than 40 films, including Northwest Passage, opposite Spencer Tracy, and as athlete Jordan Baker in the 1949 remake of The Great Gatsby...
...leisure. In one factory auditorium, an eight-piece orchestra plays nightly, and couples tentatively attempt fox-trots, rumbas, two-steps, even the twist. Says one disbelieving onlooker: "You could not imagine such a thing as this only a couple of years ago. These people were in cell meetings." --By Spencer Davidson. Reported by Edwin M. Reingold/Chongqing
...statistical measure, Spencer W. Kimball's reign as President, Prophet, Seer and Revelator of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was a triumph. During his twelve-year ministry, the Mormon church nearly doubled its world membership (to 5.8 million) and its force of short-term missionaries (to 30,000). He ordered the addition of 31 temples to the 16 that stood when he took charge. Kimball, who had been an invalid for four years, died in Salt Lake City last week at the age of 90. Certain to succeed him is the senior among the church...