Word: gene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Georgia's ex-pretender-Governor Herman Talmadge hitched himself to the same pair of red suspenders his late pappy Gene wore as a political trademark, pitched his "white supremacy" campaign for governor on a new note of sweet reasonableness: "Segregation is best for the white man and best for the colored man." This week "Hummon" had to give up his speechmaking temporarily. In an auto crash near Dublin, Ga., he suffered a cut mouth...
...bosses 250 employees and has 125 regular U.S. clients and a European picture network. Acme, although smaller than A.P., is neck & neck with I.N.P. Like every other picture editor, Blumenfeld has tried many a trick to score a beat. He thinks his best was at the 1928 Gene Tunney-Tom Heeney heavyweight fight at Yankee Stadium. Dressed in a white intern's coat, Blumenfeld waited outside the stadium gate in an ambulance...
...sordid bacchanals turned brick red as the current struck . . . That was only 30 minutes ago. The memory of the crazed woman in her last agony as she struggled against the unholy embrace of the chair is yet too harrowing . . . She wore blue bloomers . . ." In such flamboyant journalese, flamboyant Hearstling Gene Fowler described the executions of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray for the murder of her husband, in the old New York American. Fowler's story was republished last week in Star Reporters (Random House; $3), an anthology of 34 newspaper stories selected by Hearstling Ward Greene. Editor Greene polled...
...white) developed by her partner, Biochemist Irwin J. Bash. The solutions, says Bash, make the scalp unpalatable to the fungus. Some of the satisfied customers who believe that their scalps have been de-fungused and re-haired by Stenz & Bash: Cinemactors Jimmy Stewart, Dick Powell, Gig Young, Gene Kelly...
...movie extension of this S. N. Behrman play into a musical spectacle involves songs & lyrics by Cole Porter, dances designed by Gene Kelly and Robert Alton, and the direction of Miss Garland's husband, the gifted Vincente Minnelli (The Clock, etc.). The color-juicy oils and dark pastels, used with taste and intelligence-equals the best on movie record (Vanity Fair, Colonel Blimp, Henry V), and is the one unqualified triumph of the show. The composition and movement have Minnelli's Mediterranean sumptuousness. The tunes and lyrics are good grade-B Porter. Miss Garland's tense, ardent...