Word: ann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles Chaplin felt the pinch of inflation. A Los Angeles court took notice of the cost-of-living increase, ordered him to pay an extra $25 a week for the support of Carol Ann, his four-year-old daughter by ex-protégée Joan Berry. That meant $100 every week, instead...
Both of them had crossed the Atlantic with European titles on their minds. In Prague's Winter Sports Stadium last week, Canada's 19-year-old Barbara Ann Scott had hers to defend, and New Jersey's 18-year-old Dick Button...
Just as the music was beginning and Barbara Ann was set to flash onto the ice, the loudspeaker screeched. The racket might have unnerved a lesser competitor. Cool and calm in silver-braided chiffon, Barbara Ann waited easily, then, at the first musical note, was off with a sparkle of skates. When the last strain of Babes in Toyland had crackled away, and seven international judges had gravely conferred, Barbara Ann Scott was unanimously voted, for the second year in a row, Europe's champion woman figure skater...
...Barbara Ann's handlers plainly considered the European championship only a practice workout for her big try in next month's winter Olympics at St. Moritz, Switzerland. But Prague's newspapers burned up a month's supply of flash bulbs photographing her on ice; even the Communist Rude Pravo shunted the Greek civil war to an inside page. At the finale, the 12,000 spectators, many of whom had paid scalpers' prices for tickets, cheered hard for "Scottova...
Divorced. By Ann Sothern, 38, cinema's blowzy, blousy "Maisie": second husband Robert Sterling, 31, B-picture kid-brother type; after four years, seven months of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles...