Word: eileen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...music-hall gag on the subject: "The soap ration doesn't worry me-with the food I get I ain't got the strength to wash." To make up for the shortage of clothing coupons, film studios rented wedding dresses from their costume racks. Thus, this spring, Eileen Dickerson of Hornsey Road, London, was married in a costume first worn by Vivien Leigh in Anna Karenina...
...Owosso Times and later postmaster of Owosso;* grandson of George Martin Dewey, one of the founders of the G.O.P. in Michigan; a fifth cousin of Admiral George Dewey. Educated: Owosso grade and high schools, University of Michigan (1923), Columbia University Law School (1925). Married: in 1928, to Frances Eileen Hutt of Sapulpa, Okla., daughter of a railroad brakeman, a onetime singer in a road company of George White's Scandals. Children: Thomas Jr., 15; John, 12. Church: Episcopalian. Nickname...
Whatever inner agonies had assailed 21-year-old Eileen Gibson, known as "Gay," they were forever resolved in the early morning of Oct. 18. Ninety miles off the coast of Portuguese Guinea, she was pushed through a porthole into the ocean -perhaps alive, perhaps dead-from a first-class cabin on "B" deck of the steamship Durban Castle. Eight days later, when the Durban Castle put into Southampton, detectives came aboard and arrested James Camb, a deck steward, for the murder of Eileen Gibson...
...Eileen Gibson, an actress of sorts, had been playing Lorna, the prizefight manager's floozy in a South African production of Golden Boy. Some testified that she was something like Lorna in real life. Others testified that she was given to inexplicable bouts of hysteria and fainting; that she had said she was pregnant; that she had accepted her fare home and ?350 from a nightclub owner...
Franck: Symphonic Variations (Eileen Joyce, pianist, with 1'Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris, Charles Münch conducting; Decca Record Co. Ltd., 4 sides). Few could excel Walter Gieseking's fine performance of this popular work; Miss Joyce didn't. Recording: good...