Word: dame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Postmaster General Frank C. Walker was named the outstanding Roman Catholic layman of 1948 by Notre Dame University, which pinned its Laetare Medal...
...Notre Dame's basketballers felt sorry for themselves. Kevin O'Shea, the star of the team, had a bad knee and indigestion; big Leo Barnhorst said he had a sprained ankle and Johnny Brennan complained of a sore throat. Last week, with stiff upper lips and handsome gold uniforms, Underdog Notre Dame (beaten seven times this season) limped out on the floor at Madison Square Garden to play hot-shot N.Y.U., only undefeated college team...
...Notre Dame rooters (a noisy lot, centering around a small nucleus of alumni, widening out to include most of New York's Irish, and eventually embracing whole armies of subway sentimentalists) out-yelled N.Y.U.'s although it was N.Y.U.'s home town. They groaned as one when the Irish fell nine points behind. N.Y.U.'s Coach Howard Cann sent out an order to play slow, safe and cozy...
This is one of MGM's English Specials, and the studio's British stable (Dame May Whitty, Reginald Owen, Rhys Williams), accomplished actors all, help it out a good deal. Walter Pidgeon is not very happily cast as Sabre, but he succeeds in making a solid character of him. Britain's Deborah Kerr by now seems thoroughly at home in Hollywood, both as a beauty and an actress; but she is wasted in such a role. Angela Lansbury does a good, straight job in her "unpleasant" role. Janet Leigh deserves much better parts...
...third new man arrives as somewhat of a surprise. He is Tom Guthrie, a transfer from Notre Dame who has just completed his twelve months of non-eligibility. Guthrie, a six-five, 220 pound end for the Irish in '44, has been highly touted as a football prospect for next fall. His baskeball talents are not so well known, but he may see some action at center as a replacement for Bill Prior...