Word: crawfords
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joan Crawford is back on the screen, but to no avail. She cries, she laughs, she loves, she hates, but she fails to make "Mildred Pierce" more than an over-emotional whodunit with a psychological mother-daughter angle...
Married. Samuel Sloan Colt, 53, socialite president of Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co.; and Anne Weld Crawford McLane, 35, daughter of the late Edward Weld, onetime New York Cotton Exchange president; he for the second time, she for the third; in Arlington, Va., four days after a Reno divorce ended his 28-year marriage to Margaret Van Duren Mason Colt...
...certain team choices. Their fellow-travelers may well be Champions Lieut. Ted Schroeder and Ensign Jack Kramer, if they are out of uniform by then. Such a foursome seemed a poor bet to win the cup back from the Australians, who have Veterans Jack Bromwich, Adrian Quist and Pat Crawford, as well as an 18-year-old wonder boy named Ducky Pails. The Australians can hardly wait to spring Ducky on the world...
...just right. The harassed jazz composers and arrangers on the frenzied production lines of Tin Pan Alley, Hollywood and the radio studios were looking for somebody just like him. George Gershwin became a steady customer; so did his buddy, Oscar Levant. Soon many able musicians (Jesse Crawford, Benny Goodman, Vernon Duke) were juggling rhythms and harmonies into endless combinations. Long-haired music schools eschewed Schillinger and all his works: their students had plenty of time to court the muse...
Died. Lindsay Crawford, 76, rough & tumble Irish editor, first Irish Free State consul in the U.S.; in Manhattan. President of the Self-Determination League of Ireland, Canada and Newfoundland, Protestant Irishman Crawford stumped so explosively for total Irish independence that he was once pelted with snow and ice by a Canadian crowd, once drowned out by an irate audience's bawling God Save the King...