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Born Jan. 31, 1929, in London - her schoolteacher father Charles had competed as a gymnast for England in the 1912 Olympics - Jean Merilyn Simmons was blessed from youth with a beauty the camera simply had to capture. The striking quality in Simmons was the waywardness of her beauty: a triangular face dominated by large eyes and high cheekbones leading to a small, voluptuous mouth that could be sullen or amused. Her attitude promised a challenge to any man who would seek to love or tame her. That's clear in the 1946 Great Expectations, where her Estella calls...
...Phillips died in 1975, but his sister, Merilyn Phillips Hodgson, has continued his work; she now heads the American Foundation for the Study of Man, which was the original sponsor of the current expedition. When the team arrived at Mahram Bilqis in 1998, most of the ruins were buried by sand drifts as deep as 8 m. While none of the sanctuary's existing masonry dates to the Queen's time, much of its layout remains as she would have seen it. The main entrance is marked by the remains of a portico - eight limestone pillars, today half submerged...
Phillips died in 1975, but his sister, Merilyn Phillips Hodgson, has continued his work; she now heads the American Foundation for the Study of Man, which was the original sponsor of the current expedition. When the team arrived at Mahram Bilqis in 1998, most of the ruins were buried by sand drifts as deep as 26 ft. While none of the sanctuary's existing masonry dates to the Queen's time, much of its layout remains as she would have seen it. The main entrance is marked by the remains of a portico--eight limestone pillars, today half submerged...
...Although our career then was full of hard traveling," she went out, as the reporter nodded his sympathy and thought uncomplimentary things about anyone who would make Merilyn work so hard, and life spent at inferior hotels, my mother insisted upon strict obedience to the routine she had laid out for me. The question of diet was a big one. I was warned under no circumstances should an actress permit herself to get fat. This also applies to college men. I warn them against ice cream potatoes, cake, rice, or anything with much sugar if they want to keep their...
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