Word: donalds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...played their instruments but also tried to be players. What was gained in verisimilitude was lost in the wooden-Indian school of acting: Crosby, in particular, delivered each line with a granite impassivity that Ed Sullivan might have envied. John Forsythe agonized as the dying piano player, and Actor Donald Buka gave the show a fine shot in the arm as a real gone musician who seemed right in the Bix Beiderbecke tradition...
...plane landed than David James Douglas, 37, 7th Baron Nugent of Clonlost, presented himself ("Athletic and amusing," said Vicki). Soon after, over cocktails at a London club, Vicki inspected two more candidates, 41-year-old Thomas Percy Henry Touchet Tuchet-Jesson, 23rd Baron Audley ("charming") and Edward Arthur Donald St. George Hamilton Chichester, 52, 6th Marquess of Donegal and governor of Carrick-fergus Castle ("suave"). "I didn't know what to call them-my lord, or what," said Vicki. "They told me the correct way was to say Lord So-and-So, but in a few minutes we were...
...hung in a cloudless sky over England's Lake District. A failing breeze made halfhearted ripples on the sleek surface of Ullswater. Then, just before noon, the word came: "Conditions favorable.'' Donald Campbell, 34, quit his chess game and raced to the lakeside boathouse. where his jet-propelled Bluebird floated like a great, shiny bullet on twin pontoons. If luck rode with him and the Bluebird held together, Don Campbell was on his way to get back the speed record once held by his father, the late Sir Malcolm Campbell (141.74 m.p.h...
Married. Ilona Massey, 43, blonde, Budapest-born film and TV actress (Rendezvous, Curtain Call); and Donald S. Dawson, 46, lawyer and onetime administrative assistant to President Truman, quizzed by Senator Fulbright's subcommittee in 1951 about his connections with Washington influence peddlers and RFC loans; she for the fourth time, he for the second; in Juarez, Mexico...
...DONALD J. WEST...