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...Italian parentage, had made only two big-league appearances before: once when she filled in for Helen Traubel on a day's notice at the Hollywood Bowl, once on Bing Crosby's radio program. She called herself Florence Alba then. When she won the $1,000 Caruso Award last fall and was hired by the Met, the Met persuaded her to go back to her original name. She will make her formal Metropolitan debut next month-as Micaela...
Despite its smattering of genuine McCarey touches, "The Bells of St. Mary's" suffers both by its similarity and inferiority to the 1944 Academy Award Winner; it is a more shadow of "Going My Way," partaking of its shape but not its substance...
Most versatile woman athlete: Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson Zaharias, who won A.P.'s "woman of the year" award 13 years ago as a track star, repeated this year as a golfer...
International's production boss is round-faced, even-tempered William Goetz, 42, who did a bang-up job of running 20th Century-Fox while Darryl Zanuck was a colonel in the Army. After making the Academy Award picture, The Song of Bernadette, Goetz quit in a huff when Zanuck returned and began acting like a "little colonel" around the studio. Goetz approached dark, dapper Leo Spitz, 57, Hollywood's legal and financial know-it-all. A boy wonder (he earned his Bachelor of Philosophy and Doctor of Jurisprudence degrees before he was 21), Spitz masterminded the reorganization...
...recognition of meritorious service," the Army Air Force has presented a Certificate of Service Award to the president and fellows of the University for the part played in training 3113 Army Officers and officer-candidates in scientific management of aerial operations. Award for individual service were also presented to Edmund P. Learned, professor of Marketing, and Dan T. Smith, associate professor of Finance and Taxation, both of the Business School faculty...