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Word: actresses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taught her how to sit on a horse, and she later became a good rider," he recalled proudly. "I'm sure that was a great help to her when she began to associate with high society." For years he had been under the impression that his daughter was Actress Eve Arden (Our Miss Brooks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Girl from Kansas | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

...Caracas, Venezuela, for the weekend. Since bosomy Italian Actress Silvana Pampanini was occupying the Hotel Tamanaco's luxurious presidential suite, Peron made do with lesser quarters and jovially met the press on the terrace. What about Nelly? the reporters asked. "I'm too old for politics, war or women," joked 60-year-old Juan Peron. What did he think of Argentina's new president, General Eduardo Lonardi? "Lonardi is like the man who leaped from the roof of a twelve-story building and yelled as he passed the fourth floor, 'I'm doing well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: The Unemployed Traveler | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

...Vise (Fri. 9:30, NBC) makes no pretense at handling fact, nor does it seem very handy with fiction. It claims to tell stories of "people caught in the jaws of a vise, in a dilemma of their own making." Last week The Vise had a famous English actress meet a married real-estate agent in a small English town. Sample dialogue: "She: I'm in love with you. He: But you have the whole world at your feet. She: But it's you I want." She gets him. But then he gets her. It seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

...greats as Talma, Rachel, Mounet-Sully and Bernhardt. But where state funds are involved, so are political favors. In the early part of the 20th century, the mistress of an influential politician had a better chance to get into the Comédie Française than a talented actress. In unimaginative hands, the great French theatrical tradition of the Comédie became musty and dull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Famous Troupe in Manhattan | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

...concerned with a situation and can scarcely be bothered with satire; at the final curtain there is not only job security for all, but a high-placed husband (Frank Milan) for Actress Booth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 7, 1955 | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

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