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Word: crawford (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Parrish serves this rehash expertly, pointing up the tart flavor and inventive trimmings of William Bowers' script. In his detective's masquerade as an out-of-town hoodlum roughing his way into the favor of waterfront racketeers. Academy Award Winner Broderick (All the King's Men) Crawford plays a tough guy's tough guy with engagingly sardonic humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 5, 1951 | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

...Frank Sinatra Show (Tues. 8 p.m., CBS-TV), with the unenviable job of bucking the Milton Berle show, puts its major reliance on song. To the accompaniment of girlish squeals from the studio audience, Sinatra and his guests (Perry Como, Frankie Laine, the Andrews Sisters, Broderick Crawford) alternate their songs with rather painful comedy sketches. Though no longer in the best of voice, Sinatra keeps his 60-minute show moving, lends a hand with the commercials and engages each guest star in brief and occasionally entertaining badinage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The New Shows | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

...most startling upsets of the young season (over Southern Methodist, 21-7; over Florida, 27-0; over Kentucky, 13-7). The standout in a light (181 Ib.) defensive line: Guard Ray Beck, who averages 50 minutes a game. The offensive spark of the T attack: Quarterback Darrel Crawford, with a 56% record of his passes completed this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football's Big Six | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

Places like the Crawford House provide beer at fifty cents a bottle, along with comics, whiskey-sopranos, and strippers. The Crawford House's patrons range from visiting sailors and students to young ladies and middle-aged men who live in and near the Square...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: Saturday Night in Scollay Square: Burlies, Girlies, Bars, and Bums | 9/12/1951 | See Source »

Between such fixed but aging stars as Irene Dunne, 43, Joan Crawford, 43, Loretta Young, 38, and the swarming clouds of hopeful young starlets, a constellation of new stars is emerging. Among them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Farmer's Daughter | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

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