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Word: actor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...divorce from Husband Steve Crane, 2) reported trysts with Cinemactor John Hodiak (Lifeboat), 3) a pressagent's dream that her new hairdo would be adopted as the WACs' G.I.-blew up all over a Hollywood nightclub when a photographer caught her dancing with her escort, Actor Peter Lawford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Heirs | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

...play-how could we be funny, and laugh, on the same field where the Major had died? . . . That was our first baptism of 'the show must go on' routine." After the death of Major Robinson, the new C.O. was Lieut. Jack Yule, a former professional actor (in Hump-Happy, he works the spotlight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Hump-Happiness | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

...Manhattan Opportunity Shop, Inc (operated by the Community Service Society, one of the U.S.'s oldest and largest charities) reported a 25% up in sales despite a 12% drop in donations. And the Actor's Thrift Shop has found a customer for the tuxedo of the late Hendrik van Loon (6 ft. 6 in. tall, 85 in. around): the A.W.V.S. bought it to turn into a woman's suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Era | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

...Buncombe Bob," who is 59 and looks 45, has been something to see: his blond hair, worn actor's length, combed casually over the back of a Barrymore-ish collar, his gay bow tie propped at an insouciant angle, striding merrily and importantly through the Senate at the noontime opening of a session. He gives a backslap here, a glad hand there, pausing to drop a witticism at this Senator's desk, an encouraging word of counsel at another's, to confer now gravely, now casually -dynamic, carefree, yet occasionally sober under the solemn responsibilities of statesmanship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Hoey for Buncombe | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

Paul Robeson, great Negro actor-singer (Othello, etc.), who once sent his son to school in Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 29, 1944 | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

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