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...Crimson defense more than proved itself against the high-scoring Crusaders, who were mostly second-string varsity players. "Cecil Cox, Brent Clapacs, and Emmet Walsh all played quite well," Singelton said, adding, "Their play kept us in the game...
...reconstruction" and who won a record eight Academy Awards (for The Heiress, All About Eve, Samson and Delilah, A Place in the Sun, Roman Holiday, Sabrina, The Facts of Life and The Sting); in Los Angeles. Her first job for a studio was draping garlands over elephants in a Cecil B. De-Mille circus film. She notched her first Oscar for dressing Olivia de Havilland as a spinster in The Heiress in 1949. Prim and priggish-looking in her bangs and tortoise-shell glasses, Head costumed actors for more than 1,000 movies and created some fashion trends, including...
...Cecil Parker, a former commissioner who will plead guilty, speaks of the corruption with a candor bordering on nonchalance. "This thing's been happening since they made county commissioners," says Parker, who at 76 is two years older than the state of Oklahoma. "Sure I took kickbacks. I never asked a man for it. They always gave it to me." Says Betty Eisenhour, who as clerk of Canadian County was an unwitting intermediary for the graft: "I always wondered why I was paying middlemen. Now I know. The commissioners were good old boys, but just between...
...time burbling love songs on the street where she lives. Milo O'Shea, who plays her father, Alfred P. Doolittle, is a fine and feisty rogue, and Jack Gwillim manages to be both good-hearted and hopelessly stuffy, just as Colonel Pickering, that confirmed old bachelor, should be. Cecil Beaton's black-and-white costumes will always cause gasps of pleasure, and Oliver Smith's sets will forever define the boundaries of 27A Wimpole Street, where a flower girl was transformed into a lady. Within those walls there is a magic yet. But audiences will have...
...Cecil Beaton, for whose camera she seemed to have been invented, described her as "a tall, graceful scarecrow with the hands of a mediaeval saint." She appeared to have sprung fully formed from the battlements and spires of her childhood home, Renishaw Hall, like a figure in a tapestry...