Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...view of our figures on the average TIME-reading man, many of you have asked about the average TIME-reading woman. A compendium of her life and works will be ready next week...
...church for Maria. Near midnight a cry went up: "She's sweating! She's sweating!" A deep shiver ran through the crowd. Then, above the dim hubbub of questions, a shrill exalted voice: "She's sweating blood!" "It's a miracle," screamed an old woman, "we'll have our saint." Rumors continued to flash through the dark like scratched matches: Maria was dying, she felt neither burns nor pinpricks, she was dead but her heart continued miraculously to beat. Passionately one girl in the crowd implored: "Let's hope her heartbeats stop soon...
Model No. 50. De Strobl used no model for the woman in the Budapest monument ("She came directly from my stomach, as we say in Hungary"), but the Russian below her was modeled from a Red Army trooper-the 50th model that Voroshilov had sent around for approval...
Their formula for success is as simple as a C scale. Says Sammy: "We make our songs easy to remember and easy to sing. That's what Americans like-songs the guy in the locker room and the woman in the farmhouse can sing without a piano...
Greta Garbo, whose last movie was Two-Faced Woman for M-G-M in 1941, last week signed a contract to appear in one picture for Producer Walter Wanger. In the Garbo tradition, everybody connected with the deal promptly clammed up or looked studiously vague. Wanger, who first knew the shy Swede-when he produced Queen Christina for M-G-M in the '30s, admitted that it will probably be a period piece (know-it-alls said a biography of George Sand), shot "in Paris and Rome." Said Wanger, vaguely: "I had a couple of ideas she liked...