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...Hopeful. Arakelian took Avak to his Palm Springs mansion, "Dream of the Desert," once owned by Barbara Hutton. Avak paid a brief visit to his new patient, placed his hands on Vaughn Arakelian's shoulders and told him: "You are going to get well in a very short time." Then the young faith healer retired to the more modest home of one of Arakelian's neighbors. He walked in the yard, went for an auto ride through town, ate cheese, vegetables and bread. He could read no English, but he ruffled interestedly through stacks of mail and telegrams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Faith | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

From Halifax to Victoria there were outraged cries. Canada's heroine of the year, Figure Skater Barbara Ann Scott, had been maligned, and to a man Canadians leaped to the rescue of their starry-eyed sweetheart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ado About an Auto | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

Born. To Bette Davis, 39, high-strung cinemactress, and Painter (ex-boxer) William Grant Sherry, 32, her third husband: her first child, a girl, on May Day, which Bette chose for her Caesarian section; in Santa Ana, Calif. Name: Barbara Davis Sherry. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 12, 1947 | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...Carrolls (Warner) is a melodrama about a daft painter who subtly murders one wife after another. It was a Broadway hit chiefly because it provided a superb five-finger exercise for one of the trickiest actresses in the trade-Elisabeth Bergner. With the less versatile Barbara Stanwyck in the Bergner role, the story is merely thin and shabby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, May 12, 1947 | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...Barbara K. Smyth, Radcliffe '50, won the John Osborne Sargent Prize for the best metrical translation of a lyric poem Horace. The award amounts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Freshman, Grad Student Win Literary Awards | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

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