Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bigger Business. While Truman publicly deplored bigness, Wilson continued, he went right on heading plenty of "big businesses"; an insurance system (Social Security), a bank (RFC) and a shipping system (Maritime Commission). "Apparently," purred Wilson, "he wants to make all of these bigger...
Born. To Maureen O'Sullivan, 38, Irish-born cinemactress, sometime cine-mate of Tarzan, and John Villiers Farrow, 43, Australian-born Hollywood writer-director (Wake Island, The Big Clock): their sixth child, third daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Stephanie Margarita. Weight...
Married. Mickey Rooney, 28, perennial cinemadolescent (the Hardy series) who recently graduated to grownup roles (Words and Music, Killer McCoy); and Martha Vickers, 24, Hollywood starlet (The Big Sleep); he for the third time, she for the second; in North Hollywood...
...Arnold Boult, Tracy misses much of the substance and savor of the role. His rages, his gaiety, his coldblooded urbanities lack the neurotic, compulsive tensions which made Boult what he was. Behind his big executive desk, Tracy is almost completely convincing but elsewhere-as in a sequence of sophisticated badinage in Miss MacGrath's sitting room-he is beyond his depth. As his sensitive but spineless wife, Miss Kerr reels in much of the slack of Tracy's performance with ease and authority. Except for some tasteless exaggeration of dress and manner in her final drunken scenes...
...that . . . later, Mr. Banks came out from town on the three-fifty-seven, composing an informal and, he hoped, dryly humorous little speech. It was to be about Kay as a little girl, Kay growing up and finally, in a big surprise climax, Kay announcing her engagement." But at Kay's engagement party, Mr. Banks never got to make his speech: he spent most of the party in the pantry, slopping together old-fashioneds at break-glass speed...