Word: famed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain he has enlisted such figures as the Duke of Norfolk, Britain's ranking Roman Catholic layman, the young, lovely, devoutly Catholic Marchioness of Lothian; Novelist Evelyn Waugh; Lord Lovat of Commando fame; and many others. From the U.S., Cardinal Spellman sent Elwes an enthusiastic letter and his personal check for $500. In London last fortnight, Elwes saw former Belgian Ambassador Hugh Gibson, who may head the U.S. drive for funds...
Died. Alexander Carr, 68, stage and film actor, onetime Louisville street singer who won fame & a fleeting fortune as the irascible Mawruss Perlmutter in stage versions of Montague Glass's adventures of Partners Potash & Perlmutter; in Hollywood...
Pert, talented Author Ruth (My Sister Eileen) McKenney was born with revolt in her veins. Said she: "My mother, whose maiden name was Flynn, was an Irish nationalist. ... In my Sunday school . . . my sister Eileen and I were evicted for having pernicious views." Along the rocky road to fame, as the writer of a zany best-seller and slick Hollywood scenarios, Ruth McKenney paused to join the Communist Party. Her corpuscles promptly began to tingle again. A 1940 sample: "The Second Imperialist War ... is a fight among thieves, a bloody quarrel among the vultures...
...famed edifice was born under less profane circumstances. Father Miller (which Father Miller is evidently unknown) started a tabernacle there in 1841. He won large fame by convincing a huge Boston congregation that...
Godfrey took many a detour on the road to radio fame & fortune. He made a "nice dollar" selling cemetery lots as "investments," played M.C. in a Chicago saloon, "supported by the first nude chorus in vaudeville," and did a hitch as a Coast Guard radioman before he ever stood up to a microphone...