Word: diamonditis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Mary Robison ("May Robson"), 84, veteran character actress, "dowager queen" of the screen and stage; in Beverly Hills. A small, sweet-faced woman with a diamond glint in her eye, she made her theatrical debut in Brooklyn in 1884, spent the rest of her life playing pathetic slaveys, sly grandmothers, iron-willed matriarchs, frowsy housewives and alcoholic old harridans. She reached stardom on the stage (in The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary) when she was 49, reached Hollywood stardom (in Lady jor a Day) when she was 75. Two disclosures followed her death: she was six years older than...
Born. To Evalyn Washington McLean Reynolds, 20, daughter of Hostess Evalyn Walsh ("Hope Diamond") McLean; and Senator Robert Rice Reynolds, 58: a daughter, 6 Ib. 8 oz. (her first child, his fourth); in Washington...
...traditional fouled anchor, centered on a white diamond in a field of blue, distinguishes the newly-acquired flag...
...rather fitting that the future financial leaders of the country should meet the representatives of the government on a competitive basis. Big Business and the New Deal have hardly been the best of friends during the past decade. But there were no hard feelings on the diamond yesterday; in fact, through an intricate series of walks, the Harbus hurler presented the Navy with dis first run in the opening minutes...
...Harvard Business School All Stars won the mythical Business School softball championship in a one game world series by beating the Navy Supply School team 7-5 on the Soldiers Field diamond. Trailing 5-0 at the end of 6 1/2 innings, the All Stars suddenly found the range and pummeled the baffling slants of pitcher Neal for seven runs in the last two innings to earn a closely fought victory...