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Ronald Colman plays Beauregard Bottomley, an omniscient bookworm who is convinced that radio's money-splurging quiz shows threaten the U.S. with "intellectual destruction," and sets out to strike a blow for intellectual salvation. An expert who can't be stumped, he appears on Soap Manufacturer Vincent Price's double-ornothing program week after week, letting his winnings pile up with the plan of taking over the whole $40-million soap company. When the alarmed hucksters try to give him what he has already won and get rid of him, a hero-loving public refuses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 8, 1950 | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

...flew to France in General Brereton's transport," Graebner reported. "Then Generals Brereton and Royce, Air Marshals Coningham and Bottomley and I piled into a jeep and command car and headed up the peninsula along the long straight road to Cherbourg. Later we flew along the American and British lines. Allied fighter bombers and rocket-carrying Typhoons screeched and screamed across the sky just south of our plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 24, 1944 | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

...Louis Browns, of which Hornsby has been manager since 1933, announced to the press that Hornsby had been ousted, along with his coach, Charlie O'Leary, and a clubhouse boy named Milton ("Alabama") Delmas. Picked to replace Hornsby was the Browns' good-natured First Baseman Jim Bottomley. Picked to replace O'Leary was Charles E. ("Gabby") Street, onetime (1930-33) manager of the St. Louis Cardinals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hornsby Out | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

...Mendleson '35 (L) defeated Benjamin Ginsberg '34 (W), 3-1; Lockwood Merriman '35 (L) defeated William C. Egan '36 (W), 3-1; Joseph E. Pequignot '34 (W) defeated Kenneth W. Brown '35 (L), 3-0; George T. Bottomley '36 (W) defeated Philip A. Davis '36 (L), 3-2; Robert, T. Brown '36 (L) defeated George E. O'Brien...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 3/1/1934 | See Source »

...Reppun '36 Lowell C. F. M. Foley '36 Winthrop R.G. D. Newton '35 Adams R.T. E. C. Carman '35 Winthrop R.E. L. D. Dawes '35 Leverett Q.B. W. L. Crampton '36 Winthrop L.H.B. J. T. Dennison '34 Eliot R.H.B. E. P. Parker '34 Kirkland F.B. G. T. Bottomley '36 Winthrop Alternates Line L. W. Dunton '34 Winthrop Back R. C. Wells 1GB Lowell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL-HOUSE ELEVEN IS SELECTED BY SAMBORSKI | 11/16/1933 | See Source »

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