Word: cinemactor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prime Minister Winston Churchill's youngest daughter, Mary Churchill, 18, enrolled as a private in the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service (WATS), began her anti-aircraft training. Cinemactor David Niven was on leave from his British regiment to make a picture with Leslie Howard about Reginald Joseph Mitchell, designer of the Spitfire. New recruits in the U.S. Naval Reserve : Wendell Willkie's son, Philip, and Dodger Boss Lorry MacPhail's son, William. Cleveland discovered that Pitcher Bob Feller, 22, who had passed his physical examination for the draft, had been taking flying lessons for three weeks...
...Cinemactor Rosenbloom, whose battered ring career left him looking like a cross between a hooked rug and a donkey, was recently picked by girls of a college sorority as the last man in the world they'd like to be left alone with on a desert island. That honor moved him to say: "Tings like dat is all advertising. Good for yuh. As for dem college graduates, I know some. Mostly bus boys tryin' to woik deir way up to waiters...
...battle over temporary alimony. Joe carried her from a courtroom in his arms, exclaiming: "Boy, this is like getting married all over again!" Announced was a "trial reconciliation," dated to run till Sept. 29-day of the Nova fight. ∙ ∙ To Barbara Hutton, in Los Angeles, wired Cinemactor Cary Grant, in Mexico City: "The weather is fine and the scenery wonderful." Promptly the Woolworth heiress flew to the border, set off Mexico Citywards in an air-conditioned limousine with a friend, a chauffeur, a maid, a bodyguard. Her agent announced: "It is not an elopement." ∙ ∙ Gilt-haired...
Composer Yon, who thought up the game five years ago while summering in his native Italian Alps, has shot 9 holes in 19, claims to be world's champion by virtue of victories over such experts as Cinemactor Roland Young, Tenor Giovanni Martinelli, various members of the Italian royal family...
Durable Spencer Tracy, a cinemactor who can really act, plays Dr. Jekyll and Friend Hyde for more than they are worth. When bright Dr. Jekyll decides to put all his evils in one basket by swallowing the laboratory brew which turns him into the dreadful Mr. Hyde, the result is not horrifying. It is laughable when he addresses his captured barmaid (Ingrid Bergman) as "my tired fungus"; revolting when he spits grape skins in her pretty face; hammy when he chuckles fiendish "Heh, heh, hehs" at his lecherous face in the mirror...