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Word: colleens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps you're seeking a familiar face. If that's so, story to pick out some of the people shown in the picture. The colleen is Joan Conners '50, but she won't be marching, because, as you seem she's busy pointing at March 17. The others will be there, begorra. Bill Shea, genial proprietor of Bill's Place (which is know to epicures as "The Merle") will put down his sundae and join the ranks. Along with him will be Bill Gormley-32 years with Cambridge's finest-as well John Condon of Waterford. Eddie Whalen made...

Author: By Stephen Osaxe, | Title: Crimson Turns Green Over Saint Patrick's Day | 3/17/1950 | See Source »

Picture Banned. Hollywood kept its comment down to whispers. Privately, most of the high movie brass professed to take a dim view of Actress Bergman's professional future. Only Colleen Townsend, the starlet who is reportedly quitting films to become a divinity student, spoke up. She recalled the Bible story of the woman taken in adultery: "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone." The first stone was promptly cast by 83-year-old Memphis Censor Lloyd T. Binford, who announced that he was banning Stromboli without seeing it, along with all other Bergman pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Basket of Ricotta | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

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