Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. J. Strom Thurmond, 45, balding bachelor Governor of South Carolina; and Jean Crouch, 21, his ex-secretary (whom he crowned Miss South Carolina at the Charleston Azalea Festival last April); each for the first time; at the Governor's mansion in Columbia...
...good many Brazilians are stumped by Simonsen's up-to-date economics, and even those who understand them do not always like them. But in hundreds of letters and telegrams that, by week's end, had flooded his fifth-floor, book-lined bachelor apartment in downtown Rio, he was applauded for his stand on the Marshall Plan. Some of the applause was for what he said. Much was for Simonsen, the Brazilian...
...shared by two poets whom she "discovered" when they were undergraduates: Marion Strobel, a youngish (52), energetic grandmother who coaxe? subsidies for Poetry from well-to-do friends of her socially prominent doctor-husband, and writes whodunits in her spare time; and tall, handsome George Dillon, 40, an elusive bachelor who won a 1932 Pulitzer Prize for a volume of lyrics (The Flowering Stone...
...Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (RKO Radio...
...make a few pictures, hire others from independent producers. It was on such a lease arrangement that RKO took over Schary in 1946 from David O. Selznick. The first four pictures he made for RKO (Spiral Staircase, Till the End of Time, The Farmer's Daughter and The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer) helped lift RKO's 1946 net income to $12 million, more than double the previous year...