Word: stewart
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DIED. Monty Stratton, 70, "aw shucks" Texas farm boy who inspired The Stratton Story, a bathetic Hollywood biography starring James Stewart as the White Sox pitching ace whose career seemingly ended when his leg was amputated after a hunting accident in 1938, but who strapped on an artificial limb and returned eight years later as a winning minor-league pitcher; of lung cancer; in Greenville, Texas. When the film debuted in 1949, Stratton drawled: "It's my life, all right. I'll just hope folks will think it was worth making into a movie...
Grace retired from Hollywood after only eleven films. Her first important role was as Gary Cooper's wife in High Noon. She played opposite Clark Gable in Mogambo, James Stewart in Rear Window and Frank Sinatra in High Society, and she won an Oscar in 1955 as Bing Crosby's wife in The Country Girl...
...Among those film celebrities, pop notables and real and Graustarkian dignitaries who attended her funeral were Nancy Reagan, French President François Mitterrand's wife Danielle, Ireland's President Patrick Hillery, Gary Grant, Frank Sinatra's wife Barbara, Film Mogul Sam Spiegel, Racing Driver Jackie Stewart, Diana, Princess of Wales, Prince Bertil of Sweden, Princess Benedikta of Denmark, Don Juan de Bourbon, father of Spain's King Juan-Carlos, Holland's Prince Bernhard, Grand Duchess Josephine of Luxembourg, Michael, former King of Rumania, Frederika, former Queen of Greece, and Prince Henri, pretender...
...mile range--to make England's victory a more narrow one than Israel's. Observers noted that the Falklands war was an old-style "slugfest," in which the British relied on sheer determination; but by contrast, Israel relied on its electronic weapons. Retired British Air Vice-Admiral Stewart Menaul summarized the difference between the conflicts: "We fought yesterday's war. The Israelis fought tomorrow...
...Jones Stewart, a Pasadena gynecologist, says that while general vaginal responsiveness is a fact, he is not convinced that a G spot exists. Indeed, he says, patients who have had that section of the vagina removed in surgery report the same sexual sensitivity they had before the operation. Says he: "They've misinterpreted the response as a great discovery. The response has been there all the time and has been recognized for hundreds of years. It is not due to an anatomical switch that can cause excitement." Dr. Kermit Krantz, chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at the University...