Word: ann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fiddle. Piqued at her assignments on her return to Warners from her success as Melanie in Gone With the Wind, Miss de Havilland flounced out of the studio. Brought flouncing back by suspension (the big stick with which the Warner Brothers have subdued Bette Davis, Priscilla Lane, James Cagney, Ann Sheridan), spunky Miss de Havilland kept the Brothers and her fellow players guessing about her grudging promise not to elope with James Stewart during the six weeks filming...
...have a good time "when the shades are down." His first marriage to Ruth Chatterton ended in an amiable divorce and Brent's best friend is Ralph Forbes, another Chatterton ex-husband. His second marriage, to one Constance Worth in Mexico, ended in an unamiable divorce. This year Ann Sheridan persuaded him to make his first visit to Giro's, got him to promise to take her to his first premiere. When Brent discovered the premiere was on the night of his weekly navigation class (he recently bought a new 85-ft. yawl), he let the Oomph Girl...
...readily and very brightly and has a terrible odor." Runner-up in popularity to Gerard on the two programs so far is 13-year-old Van Dyke Tiers. Pacing right along, last week Van Dyke showed his speed by fully explaining PK4 (a chess term). Thirteen-year-old Mary Ann Anderson, a high scorer on the first program, placed fourth on the second quiz. Mary Ann was asked to identify the term FM (frequency modulation), quipped: "Let's send that to Mr. Kieran...
...special scholarship at Harvard if his name is Murphy or Baxendale; if he was descended from Lady Ann Mowlson, Greek parents or certain gentlemen named Reed, Holyoke, Hudson, Borden, Anderson, Bright, Downer, Haven and Pennoyer; if he lives along the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. in Iowa; or if he was once a newsboy. He may get a scholarship at Princeton or University of Pennsylvania if his father worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad, at Tulane if his grandfather fought in the Confederate Army, at Dartmouth if he is "a religious man from Missouri...
...Born. To Ann Prunella Stack, Britain's "Perfect Girl" and head of the Women's League of Health and Beauty, and Lord David Douglas-Hamilton, amateur boxer, R. A. F. officer, and youngest son of the Premier Peer of Scotland: their first child, a boy. Weight: 9 Ibs. Prospective name: Diarmaid (pronounced Dermod), Gaelic for Dermot...