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...turns out, the Swede (screen newcomer Burt Lancaster) was a natural born fall guy. By the time such seasoned misbehaviorists as Albert Dekker and Ava Gardner are through with him, the double-and triple-crossings get so thick that his death seems about the only simple thing in his career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 9, 1946 | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

Artie Shaw, whose previous two wives were Lana Turner and Jerome Kern's daughter, Elizabeth, said that he was now separating from Mickey Rooney's exwife, Ava Gardner, after eight months of it. The bandsman explained: "We simply got on each other's nerves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 8, 1946 | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

Married. Artie Shaw, 35, bandleader; ex-husband of Cinemactress Lana Turner; and Ava Gardner, 21, starlet, ex-Mrs. Mickey Rooney; he for the fourth time, she for the second; in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 29, 1945 | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

...year and a half ago Vice President Henry Wallace suggested that one major postwar project should be an international Tennessee Valley Authority. Other logical dreamers became more specific, talked of a DVA for the Danube, a YVA for the Yangtze, an AVA for the Amazon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POSTWAR: The Yangtze Valley Authority | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

...Ava Michael Rochlen, 52, intense, Russian-born, Hearst-while reporter, who directs Douglas' industrial and public relations. "Rocky" Rochlen came to the U.S. as an immigrant boy, learned English by reading the late Arthur Brisbane's column and by rereading English classics he had previously read in Russian. At 17 he was earning $7 a week in a New Britain, Conn, hardware factory, and carried a Socialist Party card. He was a top West Coast newspaper reporter when he joined Douglas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Passionate Engineer | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

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