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Like his father, Teddy enjoys going to the movies. His daughter Essie not only carries on this family trait, she actually leaves home to become a 1950s Hollywood star under the name Alma DeMott. Bit parts--"as a gangster's black-haired nightclub date in Hayworth's soggy Affair in Trinidad, as one of the dance-hall 'hostesses' in From Here to Eternity"--lead to co-starring roles with the likes of Cooper, Gable and Crosby. Essie's grandmother, Clarence's widow, sees this triumph as her husband's vindication: "When Clarence--when he--fell, it was so sudden...
Another common trait among the injured is to continue to be a part of the team. The fact that they do not dress for games does not take this away...
...teams of researchers from Israel and the U.S. who announced independently last week that they have linked novelty seeking to a gene on chromosome 11. This marks the first time a normal personality trait has been firmly linked to a particular gene. Says Dr. Robert Cloninger, professor of psychiatry and genetics at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri: "Eventually we are going to be able to genetically map personality traits as precisely as we will physical characteristics like height and weight...
...THEATER THESE DAYS, HIGHmindedness is not a very seaworthy trait. Most of the English plays that have sailed across the Atlantic and landed on Broadway of late have been high-tech musicals or dramas ballasted by big-name movie stars. David Hare's Racing Demon--which has no major stars, focuses on two priests in the Church of England and traffics in both theological debate and sociological observation--is therefore an unlikely arrival...
Thurber's pictures also possess a fascination with vivid colors and dramatic lighting, a trait that she shares with Philip-Lorca diCorcia. "Pl.," as his friends call him, combines the retirement of Armstrong with Thurber's sensitivity to the nuances of light and color...