Word: bronx
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eight: Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H.; Browne and Nichols School, Cambridge, Mass.; Taunton (Mass.) High School; Bronx High School of Science, New York City; The Hill School, Pottstown, Pa.; The George School, Bucks County, Pa.; Radnor High School, Wayne, Pa.; University High School, Urbana...
...married woman, did her own bouncing: she divorced Air Force Sergeant Gene Ennis. Now a Tropicana Hotel show girl making $200 a week, the leggy brunette got only $25 a month for support of her two children. Another airman, moon-faced Space Man Donald Farrell, 23, of The Bronx, turned out to have an ex-bride and a 4½-year-old daughter. To Farrell, his feet barely steady after an imaginative seven-day excursion through space (in a grounded chamber in Texas), the revelation meant that his penpal romance with a Niagara Falls secretary...
...verge of a new cinemacting career, Sloan Simpson, erstwhile TV Chit-chatter and ex-wife of New York City's onetime Mayor William O'Dwyer, freshened her makeup while lounging provocatively in a barber's chair at a Bronx (N.Y.) movie studio. Sloan's first movie role will be as a cop's wife in an "it-could-happen-to-you" dope opera titled The Pusher, now in production...
...rather promising playwright to Broadway, Two for the Seesaw brings a remarkably appealing actress. TV's Anne Bancroft has an urgently personal quality and unmistakable comic gifts. Allotted a distinctive lingo and some catchy lines, she wonderfully brightens her early scenes with a blend of Bohemian bluntness and Bronx cheer. But she can manage emotion too, and inner perception, and suffering she wants to conceal. In a far weaker part-being virtually a straight man in comedy scenes, and a rather literary talker in serious ones-Actor Fonda can only, very often, be adroitly dull...
Born in The Bronx 26 years ago, Anne (original name: Anna Italiano) grew up into a dark-eyed, black-haired girl with a craving for stagecraft. "I always wanted to get up in front of people and do something," she says. "When I was a little kid, I used to go up to the WPA workers in the street and ask if they'd like me to sing." After a session at the American Academy, she broke into television at 18, played leading roles for two seasons (Studio One, Kraft Theater], then put in a weary tour in Hollywood...