Word: version
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...compromise was possible between Sheppard's defense and the state's version of the crime. The prosecution contended that he beat Marilyn to death deliberately because he loved another woman and then faked evidence of a burglary to escape punishment. Sheppard blamed a "bushy-haired intruder" who overpowered...
Lanza, who sang for newsmen soon after his TV fiasco to prove that his thunderous throat had lost none of its volume, was signed by Warner Bros, to star in the screen version of James M. Cain's novel Serenade. In the film, to be shot early next year, Mario will portray an opera star whose voice suddenly deserts him, then briefly returns to him in Mexico as he leads a more manly life...
Hashim, a family man with six children, is stocky (5 ft. 6 in., 147 Ibs.), looks like a darker, balding version of Douglas Fairbanks Sr. Says Hashim: "I want to play to make propaganda for my country. I am getting a little too old for the game now, but my air-force sponsors tell me I must play for three or four more years, and I never forget that they have made me what I am. I kill myself for them and to keep Pakistan the champion in squash...
Initiative from Moscow. A Nipponese version of neutralism seems to be developing in Japan: not India's plague-on-both-your-houses style, but a let's-get-the-best-of-both-worlds neutralism. The Communists reacted with delighted promptness. "The U.S.S.R. has always been desirous of establishing and developing relations," announced Vyacheslav Molotov. Hinting disguisedly that Shigemitsu might perhaps care to amend Japan's relations with the U.S., Molotov proposed that Russia and Japan "normalize relations . . . in accordance with the interests of both sides." All in all, said Molotov, "the Soviet government takes a positive attitude...
...most shrewdly managed. Its production is cautiously diversified. "Eighty percent of it, right now, is television," says Disney, "but we'll soon be back in balance." Two major cartoon features-a story about dogs called Lady and the Tramp, which is scheduled for July release, and a version of Sleeping Beauty -are on the drawing boards, as well as six short cartoons...