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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blonde, blue-eyed Mary Lee Abbott, 19, 5 ft. 2, won the award of a five-man jury (including James Montgomery Flagg) as the most glamorous debutante of Manhattan's 1940-41 season, thus taking a long lead over all contenders for the title left vacant when Socialite Josephine Johnson got engaged last summer...
...fill out the bill, a variety of ten-minute side-kicks are shown. They include a nifty Donald Duck and some sad items on stunt-men and sealions. Also a weird pot-pourri on the history of the Academy Award, which gives tid-bits from the cinematic wows since '28. It doesn't seem to prove much, but it's interesting...
...results. One racketeer it dredged up was Albert Ruddy, who this week was convicted of shaking down building contractors for thousands of dollars during his 20-year reign as a union tsar. Burton earned for Cleveland, once a city shamed by its record of traffic deaths, the National Safety Award in 1939 and 1940. He turned his attention to public health, and this year Cleveland won the National Health Award. He has fought for free speech and tolerance. To Cleveland this year went the National Civil Liberties Award...
Brennan's Judge Bean may not win the 1940 Academy Award, but it will give cinemaudiences a good idea why he is a director's actor. At 46, he is a World War I veteran (having lost his teeth and acquired a grating voice from a gas attack), a two-time Oscar winner (Come and Get It, Kentucky). Practically never on the screen without an old man's makeup, the real Brennan can still stroll unnoticed along the streets of Hollywood, a slight, sandy-haired, balding man who might be a real-estate salesman...
...award is granted annually for research in cancer producing compounds. The donor is the Lilly Company, of Indianapolis, a pharmaceutical concern...