Word: gene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blithe Spirit" and "Stairway to Heaven," the men in the shadow of Beverly Hills have made the romance of the shade of a sea captain and a very much alive young widow, excellent and almost believable entertainment. Only the loud, artificial background music is out of place. The widow, Gene Tierney of course, is beset by all sorts of worries from beginning to end. She has no money to pay for the rent, so the captain dictates the story of his life to her, which she has published under the appropriate title of "Blood and Swash." Another time...
...Ghost and Mrs. Muir (20th Century-Fox) seems like a bit of ectoplasm left over from Blithe Spirit, but despite that handicap does fairly well by itself. A pretty English widow (Gene Tierney) rents a house by the seashore, complete with ghost. The ghost (Rex Harrison), all that is left of a fierce-whiskered sea captain who died there, still loves the place and jealously scares off new tenants...
...where it left off last Saturday at the Nonagonals, includes Harvard's 1-2 punch in the 16-pound hammer throw, Jack Fisher and Sam Felton; Captain Wes Flint in the high and low hurdles; Freshman javelin find, Don Trimble; pole vaulters Pete Harwood and Bill Lawrence; high jumper Gene Harrigan; Bill Jackson, who will put the shot and double in the discuss with Felton; Captain-elect Frank Gurley in the mile; and Ted Withington, whose 49-second anchor leg last Saturday convinced Jaakko that he was capable of meeting IC4A 440 competition...
Awarded to Marlene Dietrich (mother of 22-year-old Actress Maria Manton), to Lana Turner (mother of three-year-old Cheryl), and to Belle Taylor Tierney (mother of Actress Gene, 26, and Sister Pat): places on a list of "the most glamorous mothers in the U.S." The judges: 80 obliging magazine illustrators...
...Ruby-Arnie Edelman-Jim Wheeler (3); 16-pound shot put-Bill Jackson (3); 16-pound hammer throw--Jack Fisher (1), Sam Felton (2), John Thorndike (4); pole vault--Pete Harwood (tie for first); Bill Lawrence (3), Owen Torrey (4); javelin throw--Don Trimble (2), Ed Kaelber (5); high jump--Gene Harrington (tie for third); discus throw--Sam Felton (3), Bill Jackson...