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Word: waits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...charming Pianist Liberace, 34, whose best friend has always been his mother, proclaimed to his panting public that he is "still a free man," has no immediate plans to marry a nightclub dancer named Joanne Rio, whom he met four years ago in a Hollywood church. "I have to wait out the projects." giggled he. "Another year won't make me an old man." No sooner did he thus spike rumors of romance than one of his other projects panned out. An Oklahoma oil well, half-owned by Liberace and his ever-present brother George, blew itself in, began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 18, 1954 | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

...American. Guessing that she had headed for the studio, reporters made straight for Pressagent Brand's office to wait for the next bulletin. Brand had his script ready. "We're all sorry at the studio that it happened," he began. "It was a wonderful kind of legend, Joe and Marilyn. Everybody loves 'em both. Everybody thinks it's Romeo and Juliet. It's the All-American Boy divorcing the All-American Girl." Asked a hard-bitten Hollywood reporter: "But who gets custody of the Wheaties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Out at Home | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

...known to his followers as "The Sanctuary." Here he grants audience to the ailing on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays: They drive up from all over, in Austins. Rolls-Royces, and by the special bus that he sends to the railroad station to meet the train from London. They wait for their appointments amid sweet-smelling flowers and chirping parakeets, then are welcomed by the eager healer himself in a large, paneled room with a white crucifix on a table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Healer | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

...follow-up report." But Farnsworth's gift of explanation has won him the trust of faculties, and his personal secrecy has secured the faith of students. Psychiatric records, for example, are not put on general medical reports. But students who want to talk something over with a psychiatrist wait for him in the same room as their ailing classmates with colds or bum legs. Psychiatry is thus kept discreetly separate, but nevertheless integrated with the regular medical program...

Author: By L. THOMAS Linden, | Title: Brain Trust | 10/14/1954 | See Source »

Later in the afternoon. Dusty stepped up again. Just to keep his franchise, he smacked an honest homer high against the rightfield roof. Next day in Cleveland, Dusty only had to wait until the third inning. He ambled to the plate, eyed Pitcher Mike Garcia and promptly planted a solid, two-run single in rightfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Waiting for Dusty | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

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