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Word: famous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Long crippled, she had been living alone with three cats; now she has a day & night nurse. But she is still holding out for a $150,000 offer for her life story. That was Sarah Bernhardt's price, said she, and "in a way, I was as famous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 12, 1946 | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

Another Russian had been taking a good close look at the U.S. But Tamara Chernashova, unlike her more famous and less candid countryman, Journalist Ilya Ehrenburg (TIME, July 8), had no ax to grind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Visitor from Moscow | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...pretty, 24-year-old wife of plump, jovial Eddy Gilmore, the A.P.'s Moscow Bureau chief, now on leave in the U.S. It took a cable from Wendell Willkie to Joseph Stalin to make their marriage possible. Tamara Chernashova was a dancer in Moscow's famous ballet until some bureaucrat transferred her so that she would not see too much of the American reporter. (Their two-year-old daughter is named Victoria Wendell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Visitor from Moscow | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

Participation in the competition is voluntary, but practically all new students enter it. Monetary prizes are awarded to the winning club. These prizes come from from the bequest of Mrs. James Barr Ames, for whom the competition is named. Clubs are usually informally organized and are named after famous jurists such as Holmes and Brandeis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Legal Debaters Prepare for Final Scrap in 'Commonwealth of Ames' | 8/2/1946 | See Source »

...line Soldiers Fields has seen in recent years--a forward wall which included such rugged characters as Club Peabody Dick Pflster, Loren MacKinney, Tom Gardiner and Vern Miller--he's been wistfully seeking its equal. To predict that this year's Beef Trust will be a replica of that famous pre-war predecessor is wishful thinking only for the most partial of Crimson rooters, but a midsummer glance at the situation has enough bright spots to lead to moderately pleasant speculation...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Passing the Buck | 7/30/1946 | See Source »

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