Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Multimillionaire (TransWorld Airlines, Hughes Aircraft Co., etc.) Howard Hughes, 51, for more than a quarter-century Hollywood's most eligible (estimate: $200 million) catch, was snared at last. The winner: sometime Cinemactress Jean (It Happens Every Spring) Peters, 30, for ten years a close friend of Hughes's, not counting a year's marital fling in the interim with a Texas oilman...
Patricia Jane Berg was bushed. The Titleholders Championship last week was the climax of the lady golf pros' long winter's tournament trek, and the rain-soaked, sidehill fairways of Georgia's Augusta Country Club course sapped the spring from Patty's 39-year-old legs. Between rounds she had to rub them with liniment; she even took an extra nap. "There's no doubt about it," she sighed. "It isn't as easy as it once was. Why, I won the Titleholders here in 1939 with four rounds averaging 80. Today I couldn...
...Lent is nothing but a capitalist plot to glorify the starvation of the workers, Pravda told its readers last week. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. were urged to avoid the sinister practice of fasting for the 40 days before Easter-"especially damaging because it coincides with the time of spring sowing, and it decreases sharply the labor productivity of the collective farmers...
...Kovarsky hopes to get new inspiration from the Yemenites. Says he: "These people have in their mind an image. My desire is to find a language that will express their imagination. To be in contact with these primitive people will be for me now like getting to a fresh spring...
Standing only 55½ in. high, a good 3½ in. lower than ordinary Cadillacs, the Brougham will ride on the auto industry's first complete air-spring suspension system. Instead of steel springs, the Brougham floats over the bumps on air-filled rubber cushions. Under the hood it packs a 325 h.p.-engine, and under its brushed stainless-steel roof it has enough costly gadgets to keep the most finicky millionaire happy. Opening, closing and locking the trunk is done automatically by electronic controls. Seats, steering, windows and brakes are power-operated; air conditioning is standard equipment...