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Word: ellen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Glenn Davis, 28, All-America halfback ("Mr. Outside") of West Point's undefeated 1944-46 teams, now a Houston oil executive; and Mrs. Ellen Slack, 31, pretty World War II widow; in Shreveport, La., the day after Davis received word of his final divorce decree from up & coming Cinemactress Terry (Come Back, Little Sheba) Moore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 27, 1953 | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

...ELLEN TARRY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 20, 1953 | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

Miss Merman has been given better support in Hollywood than on Broadway. George Sanders, as the Prime Minister of Lichtenburg, is amiable with a pleasant bass voice. And dancer Vera-Ellen with her thistle movements is a gracious princess. There is, however, a little too much of Donald O'Connor at the expense of footage of Merman. O'Connor is likable as a young press attache, but Miss Merman's brash charm should not be diluted with attaches...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: Call Me Madam | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

...Lichtenburg-the other, the United States of America." As the show begins, folksy Washington Hostess Mrs. Sally Adams (Ethel Merman), a lady not unlike Minister to Luxembourg Perle Mesta, is taking her oath as U.S. Ambassador to the Grand Duchy of Lichtenburg. In Lichtenburg, almost everybody-including Princess Vera-Ellen, Foreign Minister George Sanders and Press Attaché Donald O'Connor-seems willing to break into a song or a dance at the drop of a cue. There are some plot complications about an American loan to Lichtenburg, but politics yields mostly to gags, pratfalls and love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 23, 1953 | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

Nominal Speed. In Decatur, Ill., two women drivers who collided at an intersection told police they were in a hurry, gave their names as Ellen Rush and Loena Quick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 16, 1953 | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

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