Word: danae
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...born on the drawing board of a young New Englander, Charles Dana Gibson, and she made her creator the most influential illustrator of his day. He once explained how it happened: "I was young and healthy, and the one thing that's worth drawing when you're young and healthy is a woman. You can't spend all day with fruit and flowers...
...Charles Dana Gibson never lost his "young and healthy" interest-even in the last months before his death, which came of myocarditis last week, at his Manhattan home...
...Laura" rates high for suspense value. Although Gene Tierney, who plays Laura, is murdered before the picture begins, her spectacular rise to fame and her peculiar death furnish the material for the plot. Detective Dana Andrews falls in love with a portrait of Laura. This upsets his sleuthing for a while until a near miracle occurs and the screen begins to swim with possible suspects...
Whodunit becomes the problem of Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews), a police lieutenant with Racquet Club manners, who for the first time in Hollywood history arrives on the scene minus a stooging sergeant. Bristling with brains and breeding, Mark proceeds to track the murderer and fall for Laura. He catches both just in time to prevent another lovely face from being reduced to hamburger...
Harvard's first score came at the very end of the second period, when left end Dana Bresnahan took the ball on an end-around play through right guard for seven yards and a touchdown. Garrity's kick for the extra point was good...