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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still worried, Lamech asked his father Methuselah (who died at the age of 969) to apply to his grandfather Enoch, who had disappeared at the age of 365 and won his "dwelling-place among the angels.'' But what immortal Enoch told Lamech about the future arkitect is unknown. The rest of the story is missing...
Charles Pasche was born with no right arm and only a useless stump where his left arm should have been. Like many such "congenital amputees" (cause unknown), he learned to do an amazing variety of everyday tasks with his toes. It seemed impossible that he could ever become expert at what he most wanted to do-paint. But when Pasche was in his 20s, an Italian artist visiting his home in Geneva patiently taught him to hold a brush between his agile first and second toes, gave him aid in painting techniques...
Pocketbook Clue. At the square, 30 beetling Russian tanks blocked their way. The Russians let a few women pass to put their flowers on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. But when others pressed forward, the Russian soldiers fired their Tommy guns. The women ran. One fell, shot...
...fact is that all these long telephone conversations and conferences between M. Guy Mollet, M. Pineau and the Prime Minister are intelligible only on the assumption that something was being cooked up." Bevan had his own picturesque fable for the situation. "Did Marianne take John Bull to an unknown rendezvous? Did Marianne say to John Bull that there was a forest fire going to start, and did John Bull then say, 'We ought to put it out,' but Marianne said, 'No, let us warm our hands by it. It is a nice fire'? Did Marianne deceive...
Biggest surprise on the list is platinum blonde Kim Novak, 23, who leaped into first place from nowhere. Unknown two years ago when Columbia began building her up to replace Rita Hayworth, she has made only six pictures, shot to the top in the last three-as the beautiful sister in Picnic, the slum-spawned girl friend of The Man with the Golden Arm and the socialite wife in The Eddy Duchin Story. Her next part: the title role in Jeanne Eagels...