Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laughing," said lean, modest Gus Turbeville, 30, to his wife. An obscure University of Minnesota sociologist, Turbeville had just become the youngest U.S. liberal-arts college president. That was six years ago. Joanne Turbeville had something else to laugh about when she arrived at Northland College in remote Ashland, Wis. (pop. 10,000) on the shores of Lake Superior. Northland (enrollment: 175) was almost a ghost college...
...coffee, Pogostin and Mulligan had built a play that pleased both Olivier and Producer David Susskind. In the process, they lost some of the novel's dark energy; they never adequately explained how a respectable British stockbroker named Charles Strickland (modeled on famed Painter Paul Gauguin) could abandon wife and family for a new career as an artist-or why, after he seduced Blanche Stroeve (Jessica Tandy), wife of his best friend (Hume Cronyn), Blanche later turned to suicide. But the play's bright scenes, brilliantly colored, were as bold and carefully constructed as the Gauguin masterpieces they...
Cannon, whose father works as a custodian in a Louisiana State dormitory, sold pop and peanuts at L.S.U. football games as a kid, naturally enrolled at the university desoite the 50 offers he drew as a high school All-America. A predental student (B average) with a wife and three daughters, Cannon may well be the strongest fast man, or the fastest strong man, in the world. Square and solid (6 ft. 1 in., 207 Ibs.), he puts the shot 54 ft. 4½ in. (world record: 63 ft. 4 in.), rips off the hundred in 9.4 sec. (world record...
Anyway, the air, as somebody remarks, is frightfully aphrodisiacal, and pretty soon the place turns into "a perverted Garden of Eden." Wife No. 1 (Dorothy McGuire) and Husband No. 2 (Richard Egan), who had been lovers in their teens, fall in love again, and one night they slip off to the old boathouse together. Meanwhile, Egan's daughter (Sandra Dee) and McGuire's son (Troy Donahue), both in their teens, wreck a sailboat and spend the night on a deserted beach. When Husband No. 1 (Arthur Kennedy) and Wife No. 2 (Constance Ford) wake up to what...
...Havilland Puss Moth monoplane) ; of pneumonia ; in London. A Royal Air Force pilot while still in his teens, Jimmy Mollison went on to set a flock of post-Lindbergh records, including Australia-England (1931) in 8 days, England-Cape Town (1932) in less than 5, and, with First Wife Amy Johnson Mollison, also a headlined pilot, England-India (1934) in 22 hours (not a record...