Word: fame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cornell team has Harry Cassel and Jack Rogers at the ends, Dick Clark and Jim Casey as tackles, captain Joe Quinn and John Paul Jaso at guards, and John Pierik over the ball; with Dorset, Miller, and Fleischmann in the backfield will be Hillary Chollet, of basketball fame. Bob Dean and Paul Girolame will alternate with Dorset and Miller...
...Hawthorne in 1939 when, at the beginning of the war in Europe, he picked up Hawthorne's Our Old Home and reread it "with a sense of wonder . . . at the close application of his insights" into England. The present book (the first volume of two) ends with the fame and. security that came to Hawthorne in 1850, when he was 45, on the publication of The Scarlet Letter...
...addition to the nearly 20 members of HTW who picked up Actor's Equity membership by turning pro with the Summer Theatre, Broadway stars Julie Haydon, of "Glass Menagerie" fame, Winifred Lenahan, the first woman to perform "Saint Joan" 25 years ago, and Lenore Ulric, as well as Broadway designers, added their talents to the hot weather program...
...Belgian ship Scaldis was due to sail from Antwerp last week. The important cargo was the "bathyscaphe" designed by Professor Auguste ("Captain Nemo") Piccard, 64, of balloon fame.* In the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa, the bathyscaphe will be lowered overboard with the professor and his coadventurer, Professor Max Cosyns, inside. Piccard expects to descend to a depth of 2½ miles...
This week, Flaherty was riding tandem on fame. Nanook had just completed a successful revival in Manhattan and begun another swing around the country. And a new Flaherty film, Louisiana Story, was to have its U.S. premiere next week...