Word: wanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wan and tightlipped, Cinemactress Lauren Bacall told newsmen that she planned to sell the 14-room Hollywood mansion where she and her husband, Cinema Hard Guy Humphrey Bogart, lived until he died of cancer in January. "I don't feel sorry for myself," she said, "but there are too many associations. I can't live here any more." Also soon to be up for sale: Bogie's 55-ft. yawl, the Santana...
Back in the 16th century a Chinese scholar named Wan-Hu lashed 47 black-powder rockets to a bamboo frame, clambered aboard the contraption, and as 47 servants lit the fuses, so goes the legend, went on history's first rocket ride. Last week in Wall Street, the stocks of the modern rocket riders were whizzing up as fast as old Wan-Hu. Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp., a leader in rocket fuels, shot up 6| points in three days to a new high of 54. Reaction Motors, 50% owned by Olin, has nearly doubled in value in the past...
...model, lean and remote, seems rapt in some asexual trance. She walks with a swift, gliding walk, and twirls once, as a girl assistant in nondescript black announces in a flat, noncommittal voice: "Colombine, quarante-et-un, fawr-ty-wan." The model hovers, slips off the jacket and hands it to the assistant, who accepts it in silence, impersonal and invisible as an attendant on some ancient hetaera. The stolid faces stare C'l listen for a certain quality of silence." says Dior). The model twirls again and is gone...
...soon a figure of history, Britain's resigned Prime Minister, ailing Sir Anthony Eden, 59, arrived for a month's rest in New Zealand after a 35-day voyage from England by way of the Pacific. Wan and drawn, Sir Anthony perked up on sighting his chosen garden of Eden, crisply observed: "Now I have no plans. I am just at the mercy of your wise government and your...
...East River, the U.N. General Assembly opened its eleventh regular session by admitting three new nations -Morocco. Tunisia and the Sudan-and formally welcoming the 16 other new members* hastily admitted in the closing days of the 1955 session. The Assembly's new president. Siam's Prince Wan Waithayakon. grandson of King Rama IV of The King and I, pointed out the significance of these admissions: "The increasing importance of Asia and Africa." In today's 79-nation U.N.. the balance of voting power has shifted from the 20 Latin American republics, which generally voted with...