Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alcoholic women, nurseries, summer camps, boys' clubs, a chain of Evangeline Residences for low-income working girls. Its immigration bureau gives advice in deportation cases, straightens out legal tangles. It runs a missing persons bureau, visits prisons and takes on the responsibility of many parolees. It runs ten hospitals, 34 homes for unwed mothers...
...Respect. The professional sheen is applied by a cherubic-looking producer named Worthington Miner, 49, who came to television ten years ago with a directorial credit list of Broadway hits (Five Star Final, Reunion in Vienna, On Your Toes). Borrowing liberally from stage & screen (he also did a stint with RKO in Hollywood), "Tony" Miner has pioneered in TV with such effective techniques as the use of recordings for unspoken thoughts; the blending of film and live acting, and the combination of close-ups and long shots to get depth on the screen. His fondness for last-minute technical tinkering...
Divorced. By Boyce ("Peggy") Schulze Hohenlohe, 28, daughter of Heiress (copper) Margaret Thompson Schulze Biddle, stepdaughter of Diplomat Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr.: Alexander Hohenlohe, 31, prince and war refugee, who fled Poland with the Biddles in 1939, attempted suicide last September after his separation from Peggy; after ten years of marriage, two children; in Reno...
...voice of Creator DeMille himself intoning a speech that begins: "Before the dawn of history, ever since the first man discovered his soul . . ." To meet the challenge of building from there, DeMille brings on a seven-day saturnalia in the fleshpots of Timnath; Delilah Lamarr slinking through ten changes of scanty costumes; Samson Mature strangling a lion with his bare hands, killing 1,000 Philistines with the jawbone of an ass, and pulling the temple down about the ears of the whole company...
Contempt of Court. In Troy, N.Y., Police Justice Thomas O'Connor complained that within the last month ten traffic violators had paid their fines with bad checks. In Knoxville, Tenn., Jimmy Doyle was charged with the theft of a raincoat, an overcoat, a shotgun and an $8 check from his lawyer's office...