Word: drew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since Power got to Italy last summer to play the leading part in 20th Century-Fox's Prince of Foxes, his appearance in Rome's fashionable, tree-lined Via Veneto had drawn swarms of gasping, pop-eyed Roman girls. His presence also drew some of the Roman aristocracy, anxious to get what it could from free-spending 20th Century-Fox. Before he knew it, handsome Tyrone found himself living in a house turned over to him by gregarious Countess Dorothy di Frasso, née Dorothy Taylor, of Manhattan, Hollywood and Mexico. Reported rental...
...this point the Japanese "intervention" in China drew Chiang's energies elsewhere. Mao and Chu, leading a Red army of 80,000 men, were able to break through the Nationalist encirclement and flee to the northwest. Thus began what the Chinese Communists consider their great epic-the Long March...
...cameras got action right away. Louis St. Laurent rose to make his first appearance in Parliament as Prime Minister and leader of the reigning Liberal Party. He was tense and nervous. Directly across the aisle from him sat George Alexander Drew, the new boss of the rival Progressive Conservative Party. St. Laurent started to read the traditional greeting. It turned out to be a backhanded slap at Conservative Party policy. "Politics . . . cheap politics," cried the Tory M.P.s...
Perkins served on a committee of the Architectural Institute of America which drew up recommendations for an emergency housing program, a long range project, and a bill for urban re-development which the institute will forward to Washington...
Pride in Their Park. In a glassed-in cupola atop Santa Anita's grandstand sat a man with a different view. Stone-faced Charles H. Strub (rhymes with rube), 64, built Santa Anita, bossed it, drew down $334,000 in salary and bonuses in 1948. Last week, he put on his usual $50,000 weekend race, the Santa Margarita Handicap (won by Lurline B, a 30-to-1 shot). This week, the first of his three $100,000 races, the Maturity Stakes, would...