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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the eyes of Texas upon her, Callas suffered spasms of precurtain nerves. "If you cut me with a knife," said she, "no blood would run out." But she turned up onstage convincingly gaunt, wild-eyed, almost green with malevolence and makeup. She paced the stage and clawed the air...
Luthjen's is one of the two surviving specimens of an old New Orleans institution that flourished as recently as a decade ago: the neighborhood dance hall. Like Happy Landing, the only other survivor, Luthjen's employs middle-aged jazzmen-the youngsters have turned to rock 'n...
What happens then? The ordinary cocktail-hour psychiatrist will have no difficulty understanding the professionals' explanation. The stress-blind personality creates for himself a "maladaptation syndrome," theorizes the University of Oklahoma's Dr. Stewart Wolf, in which increased blood cholesterol is a "biological adaptive mechanism for providing the...
Some of the products of charlatans have an ancient history. A turn-of-the-century fashion in ample bosoms produced "Bust-O-Fill"; the current bosom-conscious fad has resulted in "Kurv-On," "La Contour" and "Charm-On," which, says the Food and Drug Administration, "have about the same effect...
The idea sounds like a far-out gag from one of his own movies, but Comedy Director Frank (It Happened One Night) Capra insists that this time he is playing it straight. After years of research he is anxious to get started filming the life of St. Paul, and he...