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Playing well enough to make everyone forget about Betsy Richmond (last year's Boston champ) for a little while. Bougas lost only four games in her two matches to snatch the crown. She thumped B. U.'s Barbara O'Halloran, 6-1, 6-2, in the finals with the aid of a strong service return and several unforced errors by her opponent...
Shahin of Tehran, Iran, proved to be the spiritual and physical leader of the Lions. Last year's Ivy scoring champ tallied once and caused confusion and excitement every time he touched the ball...
Shahin Shayan of Tehran , Iran proved to be the spiritual and physical leader of the Lions, as last year's Ivy scoring champ tallied once, and generated excitement every time he touched the ball...
With few exceptions, like the children in King Vidor's The Crowd, and Jackie Cooper in Vidor's The Champ, kids in those days were usually required to unbottle buckets of maple syrup. Think about the death of Rhett Butler's be loved Bonnie Blue in Gone With the Wind. The little actress, Cammie King, is such a vision of hatefulness in her taffeta gowns, ringlets that curl like maypoles and a voice full of squiggles, that one feels less sympathy at her demise than at the death of her pony. The animal is shot for throwing...
Certainly a contender, if not the outright champ, for terminal indecision is Frank Capra's Meet John Doe (1941), starring Gary Cooper. Five endings were shot; at one point, three were previewing simultaneously in different towns. Another classic case was Casablanca. Until the very end, the script remained refreshingly free of any ending whatever. No one knew whether lisa Lund (Ingrid Bergman) would stay in Casablanca with Rick (Humphrey Bogart) or leave with her husband (Paul Henreid). The production took on a kind of war-zone chaos, with scenes filmed as fast as writers typed them. When...