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...Barbara Bel Geddes, 20-year-old daughter of the futuristic designer, nabbed a movie contract, promptly started off on the right leg. When photographers greeted her with a demand for cheese cake, she measured up to the occasion by producing...
...flight staff members include classically beautiful Barbara Ward, who handles most of the foreign news; onetime economics professor Donald Tyerman; Walter Hill, the Economist's German-educated industrial and trade expert. Staffers work in complete anonymity, submerging their own personalities to the paper's. Result: many a bigwig who would not condescend to see rank-&-file newsmen enjoys confiding in Economist writers...
Born. To British Army Captain Michael Langhorne Astor, 27, third son of Lady Astor, Virginia-born M.P.; and Barbara McNeill Astor: a son; in London...
Conversations-and results-like this were commonplace in Sicily last week. Unarmed, lightweight grasshopper planes, carrying a pilot, an observer and a two-way radio, spotted targets and directed fire on them with a speed and accuracy that suggested special blessings from Santa Barbara...
...Patron saint of gunners, Santa Barbara revealed her Christianity by cutting three windows (signifying the Holy Trinity) in a bathhouse her rich, heathen father had built for her. So she was sentenced to death, and her father himself beheaded her. On his way home he was killed by lightning (Heaven's artillery). Santa Barbara is also the patron of miners and persons caught in thunderstorms and fires...