Word: sugar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leaving. At the time, Rubi was busy. He was accompanying Hungarian Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor around Europe, like a bumblebee buzzing about a truckload of sugar. He still seemed disturbed, as a matter of fact, when he came to the U.S. last month. He visited New York to renew his acquaintance with Barbara, but then headed west to see Zsa Zsa again. Last week he was back in New York, and as he arrived, Dominican officials in Ciudad Trujillo announced that he was going to marry Barbara...
...decade before the real battle, 400,000 Haitian slaves had risen against their 40,000 French masters and beaten them in fighting so bloody that the population dropped by 150,000. The first rebel leader, an ex-slave himself, was Toussaint Louverture. To regain the colony, rich in sugar and indigo, Napoleon sent 70 ships and 40,000 men against Toussaint, and captured him. Toussaint died in prison in France. It fell to a successor, General Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the crafty "Tiger," to destroy the French...
...Sugar Bowl at New Orleans, Georgia Tech Quarterback Pepper Rodgers threw three touchdown passes in a 42-19 rout of West Virginia...
...Manhattan, the Duquesne basketball team, ranked second in the U.S. (after Kentucky), won the second annual Holiday Festival tournament, beating Niagara 66-61 in. the finals. Other basketball-tournament results: Holy Cross defeated Louisiana State 66-56 in the Sugar Bowl; Duke dropped Navy from the list of the undefeated, 98-83, in the Dixie Classic at Raleigh...
Heidi (United Artists) is pretty well taken care of in the words of a six-year-old boy who saw the picture. "It got sad in the middle," he said, "but it happiered at the end." The suggestion of a fallen cake, sunk under the weight of its unassimilated sugar, fits Lazar Wechsler's film as well as Johanna Spyri's book (here done in film for the second time), but young children will probably like the one as well as they do the other. Heidi herself is freshly, simply played by Elsbeth Sigmund, and her crusty grandfather...