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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Actress Laraine Day cleared up a little something that had puzzled people who have never been attracted to the Brooklyn Dodgers' Leo ("Lippy") Durocher. "What do I see in Leo?" echoed the Mormon-bred actress rhetorically. "I see a great charm-a great magnetism, and he doesn't drink or smoke, either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 24, 1947 | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

...Olivia de Havilland, in accepting the Best Actress Award (for her work in To Each His Own), came onstage as gauzy and misty-eyed as a Walt Disney angel. She began with a ten-second acceptance speech of simple thanks, fought for control, lost, talked on for another ten seconds and still another. Later, when her sister, Joan Fontaine, rushed backstage to congratulate her, Olivia froze and moved away. (The girls were standoffish even before Joan beat out Olivia for the 1941 Oscar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Oscars | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

...best contribution to the industry. William Wyler was Oscared for directing Best Years. Fredric March was named the year's best actor for his role in it. Handless Veteran Harold Russell was chosen the best supporting actor, and got another Oscar just on general principles. (Best supporting actress: Anne Baxter in The Razor's Edge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Oscars | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

...professor who got the idea of reviving Publick Occurrences while doing a biography of its founder 15 years ago. He thought about it during long months in the Pentagon as an Army P.R.O., later talked a well-to-do Manhattan friend, , William Henry Walling, into printing it without charge. Actress Peggy Wood, wife to Publisher Walling, became "Dramaticks Editor" on the same basis-no pay; Thurman (Folklore of Capitalism) Arnold was signed on as Washington stringer; Novelist H. M. Tomlinson was to report from London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Under New Management | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

Died. Ben Webster, 82, longtime Shakespearean actor, onetime leading man to Ellen Terry and Mrs. Patrick Campbell, husband of veteran stage & screen Actress Dame May Whitty, father of Actress-Director Margaret Webster; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 10, 1947 | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

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