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...heroes are three Navy aces (Gary Grant, Ray Walston, Larry Blyden) who hitch a ride back home for a four-day pass. "I came here to get drunk and chase girls." Grant announces grandly, but pretty soon an s.o.b. of a VIP (Leif Erickson) tries to pull him off the girls and push him on a stage-to make like a hero for war workers. The rest of the story describes how Grant gets even with the fellow by making time with his girl (Suzy Parker), and how in four days the three flyers get so sick of looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 25, 1957 | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

Born. To Carol Haney, 32, gaminlike dancer of The Pajama Game (both stage and screen), and Actor Larry Blyden, 32; a son, their first child; by Caesarean section; in Manhattan. Name: Joshua. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 28, 1957 | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

Girl Gambler. On Robert Montgomery Presents, Actor John Newland made the mistake of marrying two women at the same time and ended in the electric chair. On Playwrights '56, Actor Larry Blyden won $74.000 on a quiz show and then spent an exhausting 60 minutes learning that it would not buy happiness. On the U.S. Steel Hour, Singer Ethel Merman was tearily dramatic as a girl who could not stop gambling-particularly with her fiance's money. Vaughn Taylor played her sad-sack lover and, at the play's end, viewers may have felt that his troubles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

During the month of July last Rev. Edw. W. Blyden, D. D., LL. D., arrived in this country from Liberia, since which time the interest in the educational advancement of that country has greatly increased throughout America. Dr. Blyden is the president of Liberia College, is a fluent linguist (speaking no less than seven languages), and has done more to advance the prosperity of the negro race than many a statesman far more famed. The college curriculum is much more advanced than might be supposed, embracing a thorough course in classical Greek, with practice in the use of the modern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA-ITS COLLEGE. | 4/12/1883 | See Source »

...course, but would restrict the privileges of Europeans who are in the republic. As an evidence that party feeling does not run high, it may be noted that both conventions recently united in the choice of a nominee for president. Two vice-presidents are in the field, however. Dr. Blyden expects to visit Harvard Thursday afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA-ITS COLLEGE. | 4/12/1883 | See Source »

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