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Word: moring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
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Beetle-browed Professor Morgan detests waste, and time-studies everything he does. He also eats like a bird, and for 54 years he has slept only four hours a night (he estimates that he has been 25% more productive as a result). But Morgan is no joyless Stakhanovite. He patterns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hello, Mr. Chips | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

Pamela Coffey was born three months prematurely, weighed only 2 Ibs. 2 oz. Overdosed with oxygen, she became a victim of retrolental fibroplasia, which damaged the retinas of thousands of U.S. premature babies before doctors reported the cause (TIME, Sept. 28, 1953). When Pamela's father, an Internal Revenue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Just a Noisy Girl | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

In those bright years of the boom, Gilda's private life could not keep up with her public success. She had married at eleven, borne a son at twelve, and she was deserted by the time she was 14. She married her manager, one Gil Boag, in 1924, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEADLINERS: Golden Girl | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

More Fun. By then the shimmy was something that belonged to the past, along with speakeasies and a stock market where anybody could cash in. Gone, too, were Gilda's fortune and her health. She filed a petition in bankruptcy and went out to Colorado to pull herself together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEADLINERS: Golden Girl | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

Hollywood's Jack Warner saw the movie and brought the beautiful young man to Hollywood, where he promptly came to the attention of Lili Damita, a star of second magnitude who earned his admiration with her "glorious boudoir art." One night Lili stood on a window sill and threatened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: 14,001 Nights | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

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