Word: dianas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Michael Strange (real name: Blanche Oelrichs), 60, sometime actress, dabbler in poetry, propagandist for woman suffrage, socialism and isolationism, onetime wife (1920-28) of the late Actor John Barrymore, mother of Actress Diana Barrymore; of leukemia; in Boston...
Peggy (Universal-International) is a great waste of costly Technicolor and able actors. It sacrifices such good comedy performers as Charles Coburn and Charlotte Greenwood to a humorless, embarrassingly juvenile farce about the efforts of a professor's daughter (Diana Lynn) to escape coronation as queen of the Rose Bowl. For colored-postcard enthusiasts who sit it out, the last reel offers some views of Pasadena's Tournament of Roses...
...Diana was floundering hopelessly when Joseph Zappulla grabbed her, passed her up to John Balzano, who passed her up to Joseph Sabino. Hands from above lifted her to safety. No more than three minutes had elapsed from her plunge to her rescue. With no space in which to turn their bodies, Zappulla, Balzano and Sabino wriggled up and out of the crevice, fainted from exhaustion on the pier...
...while they scrabbled in their dictionaries for more stickers. Imprimatur, encomium, umbrage, charlatan and eident eliminated all but three. In Round 29, Jim Bernhard, 12, of Houston, Texas, who had plowed successfully through such words as effluviography, went down on haruspex (he ended it specs). Only plump, wavy-haired Diana Reynard, 12, of East Cleveland, Ohio, and pale, lanky Colquitt Dean, 14, of College Park, Ga., were left...
While the youngsters sipped Cokes, the judges hastily collected 37 more heavy-caliber surprises. Diana and Colquitt went through them all (including meticulosity, syzygy, prorogue, frondesce, cincture, heliotaxis, ectogenous, meerschaum) without a slip. With everybody feeling that honor had been more than satisfied, the judges thereupon declared a draw, the first in the Bee's history. To Winners Diana and Colquitt went twin sets of prizes: $500 checks, trips to New York, gold National Bee emblems set with rubies...