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...customs of stardom clung to her even after death. In the obituaries of Joan Crawford, who died of a heart attack last week, some newspapers felt compelled to note a certain confusion about her age. Officially it was listed as 69, but she may have been several years older. It was characteristic of her that at a time of life when two or three years no longer make any difference to most people, Joan Crawford insisted on the smallest believable number...
...began her fight for meaty roles that would lift her out of the overcrowded pretty-face category. She nabbed a few - notably in Rain and Grand Hotel - but those parts at MGM, which held her contract, usually went to the likes of Norma Shearer. After 17 years, Crawford moved on to Warner Bros., where she held out for two pictureless years until she got Mildred Pierce, which won her an Oscar in 1945. That film launched her on her middle passage, during which she played women who suffered much for love or ambition...
...course, had to overcome the handicap of being unable to communicate with his fellow fielders. Many of his teammates learned sign language. But the men who played alongside him, for example Tommy Leach during the 1899 season and Hall of Famer Wahoo Sam Crawford during 1902, listened for a sort of throaty squeak he made when calling for a ball...
John Holmes, the senior aide, swore that no logs were kept to record Hughes' movements. Ray Crawford, a key aide until 1970, said detailed accounts were kept. Holmes testified that Hughes wore a neat Vandyke. Crawford describes Hughes as having a long, scraggly beard and hair that reached below his shoulders...
Biggest Coup. Among many other things, Wall forged two medium-size steel firms into Sweden's largest privately owned steel and foundry company, built a small licensing operation, Crawford Door, into Europe's leading maker of overhead sliding doors, and acquired Pribo, a major food-processing and leisure-goods conglomerate. His companies greatly expanded trade with Eastern Europe, exporting manufactured goods and importing meat, fish and other raw materials. In 1974 Wall scored one of his biggest coups by swallowing up Scandinavian Trading Co., which has become one of Europe's leading independent oil firms...