Word: dolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army nurse whose deliberate anger was supposed to scalpel through a G.I.'s shell of apathy. As Social Lioness Dolly Madison trying to make a Washington comeback, a bespectacled and bewigged Bette Davis had her moments on Ford Theater, but Bette's vehicle, Footnote on a Doll, was far too rickety for the big Potomac. And Kaiser Aluminum's musicomedy jape, A Man's Game, went a long way toward scotching the prevailing theory that baseball can be successfully dramatized. As a lady pitcher. Nanette Fabray tossed the ball as girls always do and gave...
Mashed Finger. "When I was four," Reporter McCluggage says, "I asked Santa Claus for a doll on roller skates and an Austin." Growing up in Topeka, Kans., she was a determined tomboy, mashed the end of a finger playing softball, and was easily "the best blocking back on the block." At Mills College near San Francisco she won a Phi Beta Kappa key as a philosophy major, and after graduating in 1947 decided to become a reporter. She haunted the San Francisco Chronicle city room for six months before penetrating the conventional misogyny of the craft and persuading the weekly...
Onetime Middleweight Boxing Champion Jake LaMotta, 34, now a Miami saloonkeeper, drew a six-month jail stretch and a $500 fine on raps of helping a 14-year-old vice doll hustle in his bar and running his joint for a lewd purpose...
...right; I've got news for yuh; that's for me." While quiz shows are "cultural"' in content, the tone set by the M.C. strikes a contrast. Money winnings become a bundle; an elderly lady contestant is told, "You're a doll," or the M.C. begs leave to "talk to the people"-an interesting usage, observes Fadiman, "with its suggestion that 'the people' are somehow a manipulable substance...
Carroll (Baby Doll) Baker appeared in long brown hair and a loose brown wool dress yesterday afternoon to receive the annual Hasty Pudding "Woman-of-the-Year" award. A pudding pot and paper scroll in commemoration of the event were presented to her by Pudding President Henry C. Holmes '57 (above, right) while E. William Hanmer '57 (left) looked...