Word: edna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heart-faced, carrot-topped Edna Margaret Cox (Stripteaser Margie Hart, "The Poor Man's Garbo") disclosed that since last July 4 she had been married to Army Lieut. Seaman Jacobs, her express agent. Now trouping in the play Cry Havoc, Ecdysiast Edna explained why she had stopped stripping: "It just isn't right for a married woman to do that kind of work...
...most U.S. welfare workers and by Government agencies. They resent the widespread notion that women who stay home to care for children are slackers. "Education is a lifelong affair, but, especially for the very young, that does not mean scrapping a mother's care," says Acting Secretary Edna M. Geissler of the Child Care Section of New York City's Welfare Council. "I wish we could convince mothers of youngsters that their job at home is as patriotic as any in a factory...
...occasion of Julius Klorfein's purchase was not unpremeditated. A perceptive young woman named Edna Skinner, actress, radio commentator, fashion model, now a member of the A.W.V.S., heard that Mr. Klorfein had bought $500,000 worth of war bonds recently during a trip to Florida. She thought it would be fine if he could double that in Gimbels' Bargain Basement. Julius Klorfein agreed...
...written from Missouri to Alexander Woollcott, who had died in the interim (TIME, Feb. 1). Wrote 70-year-old Actress Adams: "The Empire is so dear to me it is difficult to speak of her. It seems almost like praising one's mother." Sixty-nine-year-old Edna Wallace Hopper (looking incredibly young) and 76-year-old Cyril Scott played a scene from The Girl I Left Behind Me in which they had appeared on the Empire's opening night...
...Author Edna Ferber, he was a "New Jersey Nero who mistook his pinafore for a toga." To Novelist Charles Brackett, he seemed "a competent old horror with a style that combined clear treacle and pure black bile." Critic Percy Hammond found him "a mountainous jelly of hips, jowls and torso [but with] brains sinewy and athletic." Caustic Wit Dorothy Parker thought that he did "more kindness" than anyone she had ever known...