Word: gene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Radio Theater (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). Gene Tierney and Vincent Price, in Dragonwyck...
Cashel Byron's Profession (1882) is best known as the novel which glorified Gene Tunney ahead of his time.* Byron was a professional prizefighter but, like Tunney, he was contaminated by literature, music and the arts. He happened to fall in love with an heiress who combined an income of ?40,000 a year with an interest in Spinoza. In the ring Cashel was superb; Lydia once heard him raging like a lion: "'Rules be d-d, he bit me, and I'll throw...
...season, Nelson had talked wistfully of his 1,500-acre Texas ranch. He would go home, he said, turn up only for the Masters and one or two other tourneys a year, as onetime greats like Bobby Jones and Gene Sarazen do. Nelson, winner of every major U.S. tournament (some of them four times) had lost the sustained mechanical precision with which he stroked out a fantastic average 18-hole score of 68.3 throughout...
...Scandal in Paris. Suave skullduggery in fancy dress, with George Sanders, Signe Hasso, Gene Lockhart (TIME...
Though plain cinemaddicts may find this polished continentalism a little arch and precious, it will pay off even for all in two trick climaxes: a fight-to-the-death on a be-tinseled carrousel, and a scene in which a jealous husband (Gene Lockhart) tragicomically goes bats while, strapped to his back, scores of caged birds strike up a frenzy of alarmed song...