Word: crawford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first surprise: a spectacular but somewhat deceptive shift to the left. When a U.S. soldier is kidnaped, his father (Broderick Crawford), a rampant capitalist with high connections in Washington, makes a stratoline for Berlin to "get some action" out of the military-government bureaucrats stationed there. For a little while-as the big businessman blabbers influentially in the press club and blubbers helplessly under the withering word-fire of an intelligence officer (Gregory Peck) who dares to use his intelligence-the picture is strongly reminiscent of a leftish political cartoon from the '30s in which a hog in striped...
Durable Cinemactress Joan Crawford hopped off a train in Manhattan, allowed that the weather was colder than it was in home town San Antonio, where she had dropped off for a visit, then rushed away to have "a little fun in New York...
...winners include Radcliffe Student Council President Clementine K. Kuhlman of Briggs Hall and Nashville, a social relations major; Ann H. Besser of Holmes Hall and south Orange, N.J., a music major; Ann Crawford of Holmes Hall and Pasadena, Cal., an English major; Phyllis La Farge of Eliot Hall and New York City, a romance languages major; and Eva L. Neubauer of Briggs Hall and New York City...
...door to Roosevelt House, 28 East 20th Street, in New York City. With the coming of World War Two, wartime inflation and the death of many members led the association to donate the collection to the University. But it came to Widener only after strong competition from William J. Crawford of Cleveland, who at the time owned the largest private Roosevelt collection, and bids from the New York Public Library, and Allen Nevins, Columbia's famed historian. Hagedorn and other interested alumni made up a majority on the association's executive board, however, and the collection came to Cambridge...
...gallery floor, Foreign Affairs Committee Clerk Boyd Crawford heard the shots crack out, raced into the corridor just in time to see the first gunman emerge from the gallery, gun in hand. Crawford, an amateur marksman, lunged for the pistol, jammed his finger into the trigger guard, and with the aid of a bystander, knocked the man to the tiled floor. A page boy and three Congressmen, assisted by a crowd of outraged spectators, subdued and disarmed the other...