Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once madamed a San Francisco "massage parlor." She was, at one time or another, involved in abortion, forgery, check-kiting and theft. She married something between eleven and 20 men, tried to con other men for make-believe pregnancies. But Elizabeth Duncan, 54, was on trial for murder in a Ventura, Calif, courthouse last week because she was a mother-with a vengeance (TIME...
After 29 days of trial and testimony (sensation seekers paid up to $10 to more favored folk to get seats in the tiny courtroom), a jury of eight women and four men wound up disbelieving Elizabeth Duncan's protestation of innocence. The jury recommended death in San Quentin's gas chamber, left it for Judge Charles F. Blackstock to decide if she should be sent instead to a mental hospital...
Okon Bassey Asuquo is the son of a Nigerian farmer and a Member of the Order of the British Empire. He received this accolade from Queen Elizabeth last year, after, as Hogan ("Kid") Bassey, he reduced a French-Algerian pugilist named Cherif Hamia to bloody stupor and became the featherweight champion of the world. In the measured tones appropriate when speaking of an M.B.E., his English manager George Biddles declared, shortly after Bassey's first title defense: "I rather fancy that Hogan will be about some time as featherweight champion." In Los Angeles last week, the prophecy foundered...
...plot is still basic Austen. The aristocratic Mr. Darcy (Farley Granger) falls in love with Elizabeth (Polly Bergen), one of the five Bennet sisters. She dislikes his arrogance as sincerely as he dislikes her middleclass, mercenary mother. It is a classic case of love at first slight. As Darcy, Hollywood's Farley Granger is the stuff telephone poles are made of. TV's Polly Bergen makes a winning Elizabeth, but the ex-Pepsi Cola Girl seems to be selling her part rather than playing it. As Mrs. Bennet, the huntress of five carriage-trade husbands, Hermione Gingold growls...
...Elizabeth the Great, Jenkins...