Word: cowling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Girls. "There'll always be risks, and there'll always be accidents, but we can cut out a lot of the harum-scarum stuff without spoiling the thrills," Schindler says. With the development of the brutish little Offenhauser motors, midgets today seldom hide under the cowl outboard motors or souped-up Ford engines. Modern midgets have hit as high as 142 m.p.h. on a straightaway. On the small tracks, the doodlebugs have a ceiling of about 75 m.p.h., since chauffeurs have to negotiate a new curve every four or five seconds...
...Jane Cowl, fluttery, hankie-flapping veteran of 37 stage years, who had had some trouble with a backing taxi in Manhattan last winter (broken leg), had more of the same with a station wagon in La Jolla, Calif.; as it rounded a curve she fell out the door, suffered a banged head, cut arm, skinned knee. Two days later she was back at rehearsal for a straw-hat performance of The First Mrs. Fraser...
...Fraser (by St. John Ervine; produced by Gant Gaither), which tackles the problems of British divorce in the '20s, probably wasn't meant to hold up after 17 years. In any case, it hasn't. A drawing-room piece about a middle-aged woman (Jane. Cowl) who lets her husband (Henry Daniell) marry a self-seeking young girl and then gets him back again, it follows a familiar pattern, makes use of familiar patter. It has no glaring faults; it is just so tame and predictable as to be generally dull...
Tonight only one of the students of the six-week course, Judith Hornady, will join with the six regular Equity professionals, also living at Munger Hall, in the cast of "The First Mrs. Frazier," by St. John Irvine, starring Jane Cowl...
Competing with the aircraft motors, on the guest speakers' platform, beginning at 8:15 o'clock, will be Lieutenant-Governor Arthur W. Coolidge; Linus Towers, executive vice president of the Yankee Network; Rear-Admiral Morton Dayo; Major General Horace McBridge; S. Murray Forbes, Wellesley trustoo; and star Jane Cowl...