Word: talked
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Always Smiling. Maria's inwardness and philosophical passion, the special glory of her art, is not merely a personal characteristic; it is the peculiar tradition of the German theater, to which she was apprenticed as soon as she could talk. Her father, Hermann Ferdinand Schell, was a Swiss playwright, moderately well known in Vienna, where he lived and worked, and where Maria Margarethe Anna Schell was born on Jan. 15, 1926. Her mother, a Viennese actress, daughter of a prominent neurologist and granddaughter of Vienna's chief of police, ran an experimental theater-along with a family...
...G.P.s make some house calls, the number ranges from as few as one a week to as many as 77 (racked up by a 70-year-old Pennsylvanian); the median is twelve (ten daytime, two at night). A majority of the polled physicians reported that they try to talk their patients into visiting the office because facilities for examination are better there, and the patient can usually be seen sooner...
...Maybe I don't talk posh," says Singer Steele, "but I can look after No. 1 all right." He has been doing that so successfully for the last year that his popeyed, teen-age following in Britain has boosted his take to $5,000 a week and given him a taste of the good posh life he never knew back in London's Bermondsey slums. At 21, Tommy is Britain's first homegrown rock 'n' roller. He appears before his public with his pipestem legs encased in garish blue pants, with embroidered silver guitars running...
...critics who say the U.S. does not trade enough was the case of foreign automakers: they boldly invaded Detroit's home grounds, boosted their sales of small cars by 110% to 235.000. Beyond trade, world-minded businessmen, who once looked only at U.S. gross national product but now talk of ''gross world product." will keep up their record flow of capital abroad. In the past two years. U.S. overseas investments soared from $1.7 billion annually to $3.8 billion annually...
...perishing," but the fact that Petrarch had mentioned Martini in two sonnets. Last week history reversed Vasari's order of precedence. Few but antiquarians care whether Martini was mentioned by Petrarch or not, but the discovery of a hitherto unknown Martini Madonna and Child (see cut] is the talk of Italian art circles, where it is being hailed as the painting discovery of the year...