Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frankie finds pro football "every bit as much fun as college football and more. Maybe the motivating force is extra money-but it's for the wife and kiddies [he has two] rather than for the good old alumni. I guess I don't like work and I'm too lazy to steal...
...with The Leading Lady was not that it preferred glamor to reality but that it never came close to either. It requires a little more than costumes, clichés and a liberal sprinkling of famous names to make a period and a profession seem lustrous; simply calling a bit-player "Maudie" does not make her Maude Adams. The Leading Lady, to be sure, had its moments-thanks largely to such accomplished character actors as Ethel Griffies and William J. Kelly-but there were not enough of them for the play to. run more than one week...
Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan, Britain's Health Minister, was a bit embarrassed last week by the public's enthusiasm for government-financed doctoring. He announced: "It seems that an extraordinary proportion of the population has bad sight . . . The health service will fail unless the people use it intelligently, sparingly and prudently...
Married. Sabu Dastagir, 24, chesty, India-born cinemactor (Elephant Boy, Black Narcissus), wartime 6-24 tailgunner (he won the D.F.C. in 1945); and Marilyn Cooper, 20, blonde cinema bit player; in Los Angeles...
...many of the older men the score had a particular significance. It was Virginia that ambushed Dick Harlow's team 49-0 at Charlottesville last fall. And although the Cavialiens have slipped a bit since then, a lot of the same performers lined up against Princeton in Palmer Stadium Saturday. Fullback Johnny Pap it was there. So were McCarey, Jones, Weir, Milne, Thomas, Leonard and Barbour...