Word: babe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Babe Ruth Story (Allied Artists...
...lollipop of a cinemusical. Rachel, which opened late in the month and netted top grosses for the last two weeks, is a pretty good historical drama whose star, Robert Mitchum, was recently arrested in a marijuana scandal. The critics were lukewarm to Good Sam, but it flourished, regardless. The Babe Ruth Story was thoroughly panned, but it profited from the wide public interest in Ruth's death. Sorry, Wrong Number and Rope, greeted with critics' cheers, rated ninth and eleventh...
...week's end the press reluctantly dropped the Babe Ruth Story-and a sheetmusic firm brought out a new number, dedicated to the Babe's memory, called Safe at Home...
...editor of the tabloid New York Daily Mirror was up at 7, to scan his own paper and his opposition over a cup of coffee. He checked in at the office by 9, got up to St. Patrick's in time to cover Babe Ruth's funeral, walked over to the Waldorf-Astoria men's bar for a reminiscent lunch with Mourners Leo Durocher and Mel Ott. Back at the office, he wrote the funeral story (see above), took 35 minutes to peck out a syndicated column that goes to 600 newspapers, and wrestled his first edition...
Married. Roy Del Ruth, 52, veteran cinema director-producer (DuBarry Was A Lady, The Babe Ruth Story); and Winnie Lightner, fortyish, boisterous cinecomic of the early talkies; each for the second time; in Riverside, Calif...