Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actress June Haver, who married a musician last March in Las Vegas and then married him again in Hollywood, said she would now divorce him. Alan Stephan, "Mr. America of 1946," married Grace Pomazal, "Miss Quick Freeze." Hedy Lamarr's estranged husband, Actor John Loder, who had been pricked in a dueling scene, had a sword-tip cut from his thigh. And Actor Chester Morris broke his leg in two places dancing at a children's party...
...trouble started back in 1940, when a Catholic-dominated school board voted 3-2 to incorporate the St. Margaret-Mary Parochial School into the public-school system, entitling it to state support. They changed the school's name to the Grace Avenue School, ordered rent paid to the parish for the building, and put St. Margaret-Mary's eight teacher-nuns on the public payroll. The school stayed Catholic; its pupils went to class half an hour early every day for religious instruction...
...three pro-Catholic members were voted out of power in 1942 and the school lost out on public funds. But when the Catholics returned to power in January 1946, St. Margaret-Mary again became the tax-supported Grace Avenue School. A non-Catholic taxpayer filed suit, accusing the board of violating the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, but the case has never been heard...
Fiesta (MGM) is tacked together out of Technicolor, leftover story formulas and shopworn lace, to shelter three possible excuses for a picture: music, dancing and bullfighting. The bullring sequences get along without picadors or coups de grace, and apparently the same old company bull is photographed again & again. More stirring is Johnny (Body & Soul) Green's rearrangement of Aaron Copland's El Salon Mexico. Bits of the dancing (by Mexican Star Ricardo Montalban and Cyd Charisse) are more tense and percussive than the brand generally seen north of the border...
Having used up his full ten days of grace, President Truman must tomorrow either approve or reject the 80th Congress' stab into organized labor's bowels, the Taft-Hartley Bill. Faced with this and three other measures designed to break finally the New Deal's influence on the country, the President must realize that this week the long-pending fight between a Republican legislature and Democratic executive has come out into the open, and will remain aired until next year's crucial elections swing political fortunes either way. Should Mr. Truman concur with his generally conservative Cabinet and approve...