Word: 1940s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said now which I've never been allowed to say in the past." The younger dramatists had cleared the way by campaigning against the official stage censor, a punctilious guardian of manners and language for the starchy upper-crust audience that had so inhibited English theater. (In the 1940s, one censor boasted to Travers of this ultimate stroke of permissiveness: "I was the first censor to pass the word bottom." The office was abolished...
Married. Doris Day, 52, freckle-faced band singer of the 1940s turned virgin queen of cinema in the '50s and '60s; and Barry D. Comden, 41, sometime restaurant manager; she for the fourth time, he for the second; in Carmel, Calif...
Margaret's roller-coaster romantic history goes back to the 1940s, when, as a coltish teenager, she developed a serious crush on Group Captain Peter Townsend, a handsome World War II flying hero and aide to King George VI. The crush developed into a full-fledged romance. When she was in her mid-20s, and Townsend had divorced his wife, a wedding seemed to be the next thing on Margaret's agenda. But Queen Elizabeth, as head of the Church of England, could not sanction the marriage of her younger sister, then third in line to the throne...
Died. Busby Berkeley, 80, choreographer of kaleidoscopic, extravagant movie musicals of the 1930s and 1940s (the Gold Diggers series, 42nd Street); of heart disease; in Palm Springs, Calif. Drillmaster Berkeley's average cast of 100 chorines rode decoratively in Ferris wheels, bowed neon-lighted violins while they whirled in triple-hooped skirts, played acres of white pianos for 100 top-hatted swains. Footlight Parade featured the precision swimming and diving of 150 movie mermaids, filmed from a plate-glass corridor underneath the mammoth pool, all of which cost $10,000 per screen minute. The nostalgia wave of the early...
...then managed his winning gubernatorial drive in 1970 and became his executive secretary. Jordan describes himself as a late-blooming progressive. A cousin founded Koinonia (Greek for fellowship or communion), a biracial farm in southwestern Georgia that deeply offended Ku Klux Klan members and other white racists in the 1940s. Even so, Jordan as a teen-ager opposed the black civil rights movement, only to change his mind a few years later...