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...ancient Pharaohs, who knew and admired the Afghan breed, used a different descriptive phrase-a papyrus from 4000 B.C. refers to the swift dogs that roamed the Sinai desert as "monkey-faced." No one knows how or when the seed of the breed was transported to Afghanistan, but all along the wild, high borderland of northern India the great hounds became a royal canine family. They were smart enough to herd sheep, swift enough to run down deer, sturdy enough to tangle with leopards. Their broad, high-set hips lent unusual agility to their natural speed. They have been called...
...being a willful little animal because no way had been found to bring her into meaningful association with others. As Helen, eleven-year-old Patty McCormack brought to the play many of the tantrum qualities that won praise for her part in the hit play and movie, The Bad Seed. As superlatively played by Teresa Wright, Annie was a no-nonsense teacher who refused to turn the other cheek. She fulminated against her charge ("pigheaded little jackass"), even slapped her occasionally. Nor did she mince words with the too-solicitous Captain (Burl Ives) and Mrs. Keller (Katharine Bard): "Helen...
Southern witnesses denounced President Eisenhower's civil rights program yesterday as containing the seed of a "Soviet type gestapo." Critics from Georgia and Alabama opened such a broadside before a House Judiciary subcommittee that Northern members protested against what they called "inflammatory" statements...
MILESTONES Born. To Nancy Kelly, 35, stage-and-screen actress (The Bad Seed) and Warren Caro, 49, Theatre Guild executive: a daughter, their first child, eleven weeks prematurely; in Manhattan. Name: Kelly Lurie. Weight...
When he was only five, David Daniel Kaminski, lean, red-haired son of a Russian-born garment worker, made his professional debut as a watermelon seed in a play at Brooklyn's P.S. 149. Within 25 years, the little seed had sprouted into a big U.S. buffoon called Danny Kaye. Comedian Kaye mugged, mimicked and gitgatgittled through vaudeville and such hit Broadway shows as Lady in the Dark, was carefully nourished in Sam Goldwyn's Hollywood hothouse, and had his own radio show. For ten years of playing to packed houses, he never ventured to play the biggest...