Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the commission met Nov. 13 for its lead-off inspection at the Oak Ridge plant, Chairman David Lilienthal did not quite know how to begin the proceedings. Finally, with determined offhandedness, he said: "Well, I guess we might as well start...
...British-boy-meets-American-girl story is told with winning charm. David Niven is the British airman who finds himself falling in a burning plane. By radio, he shouts amorous-poetic speeches (he is certain they are his dying words) to a pretty WAC (Kim Hunter) on the landing field. Then he jumps-without parachute. Incredibly, he picks himself up uninjured except for a peculiar crack on the head that makes him imagine he is a fugitive from heaven. Throughout the film, the camera moves between a clinical study of lovesick Niven's brain disorder and the imaginary heaven...
Born. To Danny Kaye (real name: David Daniel Kaminski), 33, puckish, nimble-tongued comedian, and Sylvia Fine Kaye, 33, who wrote the tongue-twisting patter songs that first made her husband famous: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Dena. Weight...
Died. Constance Garnett, 84, pioneer and most prolific English translator of Russian literature, widow of Essayist Edward Garnett, mother of Novelist David Garnett; in Edenbridge, England. Despite failing eyesight (she had to have the Russian texts read aloud), shy, scholarly Mrs. Garnett labored for 50 years over the prodigious task of translating the works of Turgenev, Dostoevsky and Chekhov, the best of Tolstoy, much of Gogol. Her translations are regarded as among the best in their field, were largely responsible for the role Russian literature played in the transition from Victorian letters to 20th Century realism...
...dispute, a long legal fight was in prospect. Meanwhile, Mary and Charlie were busy lining up more pictures for U.A. with independent producers. Mary, in a new company formed with Lester Cowan (G.I. Joe), planned to produce four pictures of her own next year. She'd show that David...