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Word: bettye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sesquipedalian Words. Last week, U.S. readers could find out a good deal more about the panjandrum. A group of scholars, critics and historians had written sketches and tributes for a book about him (Archibald Henderson: The New Crichton, edited by Samuel Stevens Hood; Beechhurst Press; $5). Among the contributors were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Grand Panjandrum | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

Some M-G-M officials secretly thought it was just as well. Quo Vadis still had no final shooting script, some casting and production details were unsettled; with luck, most of the $1,000,000 investment could be salvaged in the end. Besides, M-G-M still had an even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quo Vadis, M-G-M? | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend {20th Century-Fox} is a wild-eyed jamboree starring Betty Grable and co-starring the explosive, uneven talents of Writer-Director-Producer Preston Sturges (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek). The show is a running battle between sex and slapstick, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 6, 1949 | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

The slapstick, gotten up as an elaborate spoof of Hollywood westerns, quickly gets out of hand. So does Grable. As a pistol-packing hussy in bustles, Betty takes a potshot at her wayward boy friend (Cesar Romero), nicks instead the wrong end of the local judge. While wriggling out of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 6, 1949 | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

Betty Farley, 26, slim blonde eldest of Politician Jim Farley's three children, set the date (June 9) and the place (St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City) for her wedding to Glenn Montgomery, 35, electrical engineer and wartime lieutenant colonel.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: That Old Feeling | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

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