Word: barbara
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Barbara Stauwyek does an excellent job as the soft-hearted gold digger. Needless to say, eventually she really falls for the guy. No one will mind this, however, because it's just more comic material for Preston Sturges to work with. There's no "hoke" in "The Lady Eve." Far from...
Radcliffe's art society, the "Dabblers," will inaugurate a series of informal talks on art with a lecture on "Materials and Techniques" by Miss Barbara Rowell, teaching fellow in Fine Arts, at 4 p.m. this afternoon in Agassiz' Ghirlandajo Room...
...dusty, backlands Brazilian hamlet of Estaçäo de Santa Barbara was just a whistle stop on the Paulista Railroad until two foreigners arrived there in 1868. The foreigners were Colonel William H. Norris and his son Robert, unreconstructed U.S. rebels from Oglethorpe, Ga. Heartsick at the South's defeat, they had listened with interest to tales of Brazil, a vast country where slavery was still a respected institution and a gentleman planter could work his lands in peace and dignity...
...Norrises liked what they saw around Santa Barbara. It was hot country, but without the debilitating humidity of Rio. The rolling hills were forested, and the promise of water was everywhere. The Norrises sent for their family. In the next six months, some 80 other American families joined them, and by 1894, the area was so thoroughly American that paulistas took to calling it Villa Americana, a name which the state of Sao Paulo later made official...
Other players are Robert M. Cipes '50, Joanua Brown '52, Richard T. Heffron '52, Barbara Nathan '49, Michael Mabry '52, James H. Kay '53, James F. O'Neil '52, and Peter S. Capermaros...