Word: colleens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Atlantic City paraded another year's harvest of beauty. Top of the crop and Miss America for 1952: a statuesque Westerner, Colleen Kay Hutchins of Salt Lake City, 25 years old, 5 ft. 10 in. tall, weighing 143 lbs., oldest and huskiest girl ever to capture the crown, the tallest winner in six years, the first blonde in 13. Her take: the usual $5,000 scholarship plus whatever she can make in a grueling year of personal appearances and testimonials. Her ambition: the usual stage career...
...left him free, before making his first picture, to do 90 more concerts from Nova Scotia to Mexico. In June 1948, he reported to the studio and settled down in Beverly Hills, where he now lives in a two-story white stucco house with his adoring wife, their children, Colleen, 2, and Elissa, 8 months, his still-doting parents, the ancient Victrola of his childhood and a gold 45-r.p.m. record that RCA Victor presented to him for selling so many of its Vinylite cousins...
Morning Journey is totally unlike Novelist Hilton's big hits, Goodbye, Mr. Chips and Lost Horizon. It is the story of a stage-struck Irish colleen named Carey, who pines for stardom and is raised to it by a producer who is a theatrical genius. He also marries Carey, but, like all geniuses in fiction, is too much of a heel to toe the married line. So Carey swaps him for a likable millionaire-only to conclude, after a couple of hundred pages of tightly packed pondering, that the path of genius, however rough, is preferable to Wall Street...
...Married. Colleen Townsend, 21, who gave up a promising movie career for the church; and Theological Student Louis H. Evans Jr., 24; in Hollywood...
Under that heading Editor Robert Walker told about a group of movie folk who had become "born-again believers in the Lord Jesus Christ." Among Christian Life's galaxy of "sincere and effective soul-winners": Stars Jane (The Outlaw) Russell and Roy Rogers, Starlet Colleen Townsend. Colleen, said the article, had underscored her conversion by leaving the "secular movie industry," which has "been one of Satan's most effective weapons for corrupting the morals and misleading the youth of the world." None of the others, however, had yet heard a similar call...