Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...difficult for even the best comedians to wrestle with such tired stuff as this. The authors--Garson Kanin, who wrote "Rat Race" and "Born Yesterday," and his wife Ruth Gordon--lacked their usual light touch on this...
Last year's top two are back in the other two specialties: Tom Wood and John Steinhardt, backstroke, and Win Briggs and Gordon Weir, diving. Sophomore Hugh Hartwell is a rising backstroke prospect and Frank Manheim, ineligible as a transfer student last year, may be the third man on the springboard...
...Eastern contingent, which leaves Decameter 18, will be coached by Dartmouth's Tesn McLaughry an Colgate's Andy Kerr. Other members of the team picked yesterday are: Hillary Chollet and pote Dorset (Cornell), Tom Rowe (Dartmouth), Bucky Walters (Brown), Phil Ryan (Navy), Clayton Tonnemaker and Gordon Soltan (Minnesota), and John Schweder (Penn). When complete, the squad will number...
...Washington's WWDC was snowed under with requests for Mule Train; his listeners could not seem to hear it often enough. Early one morning last week, Cummings struck back: he began playing, one after the other, recordings of Mule Train as sung by Frankie Laine, Bing Crosby, Gordon MacRae, the Syncopators, Buzz Butler, Arthur Smith, Vaughn Monroe and Tennessee Ernie. Before long, the unrelieved barrage of whipcracks and clippity-clops jammed WWDC's switchboard with phone calls from desperate night owls crying "Uncle...
...story, fashioned by Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon: a frowsy blonde (Judy Holliday) trails her husband (Tom Ewell) to his girl friend's apartment and shoots him, but not fatally. The rest of the movie follows the trial of the assault case in court. Attorney Tracy is defending a husband's right to philander; Attorney Hepburn is fighting for a woman's right to shoot an adulterous husband...