Word: ann
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...champ chipped a bit of gilt off her successor's fame last week. Brenda Helser, one of Coach Jack Cody's Portland (Ore.) protégées, was the nation's swiftest woman sprint swimmer a year ago; then along came another West Coast mermaid, Ann Curtis (TIME, April 23), and snatched away her indoor and outdoor titles...
Last week at Pasadena, beauteous Brenda seemed a cinch to win the Pacific Coast A.A.U. 100-yd. free-style championship, with arch-rival Ann not entered in the race. But Brenda had to put every last ounce of energy into the final lap to beat Marilyn Sahner of San Francisco by a stroke in 1:02.3. That clipped two-tenths of a second off Ann Curtis' U.S. record...
Those Endearing Young Charms (RKO-Radio) confronts Robert Young, an Air Forces wolf on furlough in New York, with Laraine Day, an impressionable girl. She lives with a mother (Ann Harding) whose memories of her own blighted romance make her at first fear for her daughter, then urge her to go ahead and take her chances. Kicked around rather heartlessly among these three is Bill Williams, an unlucky lump of puppy love. During most of the film Mr. Young is about as systematically caddish as a man can well be and yet rate stellar billing; he even pretends...
Charles Spencer Chaplin lost a plea in Los Angeles Superior Court for a new trial of the case in which he was judged the father of Joan Berry's 20-month-old daughter, Carol Ann...
General Mark Clark, lanky field commander of the Italian campaign, showed up in his home city and was roundly cheered by hundreds of thousands of Chicagoans, soundly bussed by his wife and daughter, Ann. He got home in time to attend Ann's graduation exercises at Marjorie Webster Junior College, Washington, D.C. and Cadet Mark W. Clark Jr.'s, at West Point, (see EDUCATION...