Word: warm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hand in China, as it so often has before. While flooding rains fell over huge chunks of Central China, the provinces of Kirin and Hopei were parched by drought. In Szechwan, a force of 40 million Chinese was working desperately to keep a wheat crop, badly weakened by unseasonably warm weather in the spring, from toppling over. In Honan, 5,000,000 farmers were battling swarms of insects, and six other provinces were plagued by plant fungus. Finally, last week, came official reports that "the worst flood of the century" had been raging through the provinces of Kiangsu and Anhwei...
Under the long, lemon-tinted gown and the towering headdress of aigrette plumes, the tall, tawny body is heavier now. The warm eyes seem smaller, softer, in a face fleshed with age. But the quick, bright smile is as vivid as ever; the remembered throb of her voice still husks the rafters-a rising, clear-toned shout. At 53, Josephine Baker, the supple emigre from St. Louis who sailed into the heart of Paris on the high old tides of the '20s, is still a top banana of the boulevards. It is three years since her last "retirement...
This Is Your Life (NBC, 10-10:30 p.m.). This time there is no point in sticking to secrecy-better to spread the word and warm up a teen-age audience that the show has never known before. The object of M.C. Ralph Edwards' exasperating attentions: Disk Jockey Dick Clark...
...warm, romantic production of Much Ado About Nothing has got the Group 20 Players off to an impressive start in their seventh season. Their approach to the play is avowedly different from customary ones; and this approach took a good deal of courage...
...like her in every audience." Adds Sinatra: "We have a kind of trust in each other. If Shirley tells me to read a book, I read it. I trust her taste and knowledge, and I think she trusts mine. She is kind of a kook, * but very warm...