Word: anna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anna M. Rosenberg, Manhattan labor consultant and wartime regional director of the War Manpower Commission, advised the Advertising Women of New York: "Let the New Look of today be the forgotten look of tomorrow. It shows everything you want to hide and hides everything you want to show...
Born. To James Roosevelt, 40, and Romelle Schneider Roosevelt, 32, his second wife: their first daughter, third child (he also has a son and daughter by first wife Betsey Gushing, now Mrs. John Hay Whitney); in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Anna Eleanor (after her paternal grandmother). Weight...
...landed a part as Starbuck in a college production of Moby Dick. In this first try at acting he was so terrible that self-respect forced him to try again. In the next plays, he was better. By the time he played Matt in the drama club's Anna Christie, he knew what he wanted. He could not even wait five days to pick up his diploma, he was in such a hurry to reach Broadway...
Married. Major General Claire Lee Chennault (ret.), 57, granite-faced old China hand; and Anna Chan, 24, Shanghai newspaperwoman, daughter of a onetime Chinese consul in San Francisco; in Shanghai. Ex-Flying Tiger Boss Chennault, who stayed in China to run the Fourteenth Air Force after the U.S. got into the fight (and now runs a China airline carrying relief supplies), was divorced 17 months ago by his first wife, who had borne him eight children...
Soprano Regina Resnik sang the role of Donna Anna in Don Giovanni at the Met while a detective watched from the wings. Nothing happened. The 25-year-old blonde had had anonymous threats from a woman she thought must be mad, since the threatener doubted Regina's ability to do justice to the role...