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While the minuscule monsters have traditionally attacked only people who stepped on their turf, they've recently brought their mayhem indoors as well. Says Marion Bernhardt, 78, of West Palm Beach, Florida, who last year survived an ant assault in a hospital bed: "I was stung all up and down my legs, and I had welts all over them and on my side. They burned for days. I never had such an experience in all my life." She was lucky. At least 50 people have died in recent years from allergic reactions to fire-ant stings...
...about the woman behind the Museum--that she was an eccentric Boston socialite who stipulated in her will that the arrangement of the pieces could not be changed after her death. True--but did you also know that she was friends with people such as John Singer Sargent, Sarah Bernhardt and Henry James? Or that if the conditions her will were violated, the museum was to go to Harvard College, and sold to provide an increase in faculty salaries and student scholarships...
...film is based on the novel and play La Dame aux Camelias by Alexandre Dumas Fils. As this story has been popular for more than a century, legendary actresses such as Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse have played this fascinating courtesan. Several incidents in Garbo's own life led her to take the role: her own sister Alva died of tuberculosis and she suffered from similar physical ailments. And Marguerite's emotional self-containment curiously parallels the offscreen distance Garbo carefully maintained from both of her eager costars, Taylor and Barrymore...
Modern advertising and modern celebrity arose simultaneously in America. The symbiosis was automatic, and Sarah Bernhardt leased her name and reputation to merchandisers decades before Cher was born, let alone starring in infomercials for personal-grooming products. At first endorsements were simply that: straightforward firsthand testimonials about the virtues of a product. William McKinley appeared in Waterman pen ads even while he was in the White House ("An invaluable pocket companion...
...defense, long-sticks Sandy Bernhardt and Dave Giarrusso will be assigned the unseemly task of trying to contain the prolific Cavouti. Bernhardt will call upon his outstanding speed to keep pace with the wiley Harvard attackmen, while Dave Giarrosso, a sturdy 6'1" junior, will play a tough, physical game to repel the Crimson attack...