Word: brookses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Yardling swimmers take on Huntington School at 3 this afternoon in the I.A.B. pool for their second meet this winter. Coach William Brooks said he lacked definite information about the Huntington swimmers, but expected them "to be strong in distance and medley swims."
Coach Brooks declined to predict the outcome of the Huntington meet, but expressed hope for his swimmers. He said that the names of the swimmers for each event will be chosen just before the match from a squad of about 20 men.
The Walls Shook. M-G-M was hopeful that in Actress Schell it had found a dish to tempt the flagging U.S. appetite for films-but was the dish just a little bit too full for the American taste? Director Brooks suggested tactfully that Maria refuse some of those second...
Director Brooks decided to be firm. "Maria, you have to lose weight." "Why?" "Because"-he took a deep breath-"you are not sexually attractive." That tore it. Says Brooks: "The walls shook. My teeth rattled. What a tigress." She concluded coldly: "In Europe, people look at my face, not at...
When work began, the crew at first suspected Maria's actressy airs and star-bitrary manners. But once they saw her in front of the camera, says Brooks, "they knew they had to do with a real professional, and the whole atmosphere of the picture changed. The other actors...