Word: sylvia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SPINSTER, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. A flashing original both in style and subject by a New Zealand schoolmistress who writes about her calling with a beautiful sense of mission...
Unlikely as it seemed, the personable Ago Khan, 22, was fresh out of prospective begums, at least as far as anyone in the gossip mills knew. One of his brightest flames, Sylvia Casablancas, 19, daughter of Mexican Moneybags Fernando Casablancas, disclosed that summer had brought her a love match with handsome French Tennistar Jean-Noel Grinda, 22. That still left the Aga linked with pretty Tracy Pelissier, 18, stepdaughter of British Moviemaker Sir Carol Reed, and the Aga's house guest in Cannes for a spell last summer. Tracy's mother spiked any thoughts of serious romance most...
...make her 400-meter victory even sweeter, Chris beat her great home-state rival, Berkeley's husky, 17-year-old Sylvia Ruuska (TIME, Mar. 9) by a full 7.5 sec., established herself as the most promising U.S. freestyler in years. Even so, Chris is still far from her peak. A leggy 5 ft. 10 in., 141 lbs., she is still filling out, should be faster yet in the Rome Olympics next August against the great Australians. Beyond that, her future seems unlimited to her coach, George Haines. "If Chris can keep interested in swimming, she could hit fantastic marks...
...Hugh Herbert's delightful sophisticated comedy, The Moon is Blue, in which Frank Langella and Frederick Morehouse '59-3 performed with considerable skill. Jan de Hartog's The Four-poster, a series of lovely vignettes of married life, came off moderately well in the hands of Tad Danielewski and Sylvia Daneel; but the play really cries out for polished husband-and-wife teams like Hume Cronyn-Jessica Tandy and Rex Harrison-Lili Palmer...
Born. To Minot Frazier ("Mickey") Jelke, 30, paunchy margarine heir who operated a $50-$500 call-girl service out of his Manhattan apartment, spent 21 months behind bars for procuring; and Sylvia Eder, onetime silver-haired model, who filed for divorce last July, a second son; in Hollywood, Fla. Name: Minot Frazier II. The Jelkes were reconciled by the birth and are now, according to Sylvia, "very happy...