Word: danae
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mulvihill, who resides at 12 Dana Road, Belmont, has three children, all married...
When rapture No. 1 comes along, Maureen O'Hara, an impetuous young woman of the 1880s, defies her respectable family to marry an impoverished painter (Dana Andrews with a beard). Soon after he takes her off to live in a picturesque London slum, Dana turns out to be just what mother suspected-a bounder. Fortunately for Maureen, he is also a drunkard. One bright morning-after, he topples off the front stoop and breaks his neck...
This leaves Maureen free for rapture No. 2, a poor young lawyer (Dana Andrews without a beard) who is also a drunkard. Not to be caught napping a second time, Maureen sobers him up, supplies him with bed & board, and helps him to start a puppet theater in the mews. After a stretch of successful puppeteering, the couple's happiness is threatened by the return of Dana's wife from the U.S. But everything is straightened out in time for a jolly family reunion with Maureen's respectable parents down in Surrey...
...Dana Reed prize is awarded by the editors of the 1943 Album, out of the yearbook's profits. This year's judges were Cleveland Amory '39, author of "The Proper Bostonians"; Joseph F. Barnes '27, former editor of the New York Star; and Norman Mailer '43, author of "The Naked and the Dead...
...Dana Reed was chairman of the '43 Album, and was reported missing in action over Italy on Armistice Day, 1944. His fellow editors voted to award their profits "in honor of Dana Reed and in recognition of undergraduate writing such as that in which he participated...