Word: second
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Ater 14 years of marriage and three of divorce, Poetess Dorothy Parker, 57, was remarried in Bel-Air, Calif, to second husband Alan Campbell, 43. Explained Screen Writer Campbell: "I just called her up in New York and asked her and she said yes." What about the honeymoon? "We're not going away," said Dorothy. "We've been everywhere...
...Kure, Japan, Swimmer Hironoshin Furuhashi shaved nearly a second off the world's record for the 500-meter free style. His time: 5:55.8. Runners-up:Yale's John Marshall, Hawaii's Ford Konno...
...roundly at the bottom of contralto range. Then, to their astonishment, she soared effortlessly up a full four octaves, began trilling like a canary at the top of coloratura. At the end of her first song, the audience was still too surprised to raise more than warm applause. The second, Tumpa (Earthquake), brought cheers; after the third, a pyrotechnical Inca Hymn to the Sun, the applause and cheers swelled to a roar for encores. Guest Conductor Arthur Fiedler, who had a plane to catch, was obliged to break up the demonstration by launching his orchestra into Tchaikovsky's noisy...
...second quarter, said the Department of Commerce last week, the gross national product (goods and services produced in the U.S.) was running at a record peacetime rate of $270 billion a year, 2.8% over the first quarter's rate. In July, the Federal Reserve Board estimated, the index of industrial production was at a peacetime high of 199 (v. 161 a year before). Department-store sales for the latest week available (Aug. 5) were 29% above last year...
Married. Samuel Goldwyn Jr., 23; and Jennifer Howard, 24, daughter of the late playwright Sidney Coe Howard (They Knew What They Wanted); he for the first time, she for the second; in Berkeley, Calif...