Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the Shah had set off for a ceremonial visit to Manhattan and a month's visit around the U.S., Harry Truman settled down to routine. A little fat from his long desk-bound summer, he had been roped into a reducing contest with Brigadier General Wallace Graham, the White House physician, and his portly military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan. The President still had three pounds to lose by Thanksgiving Day (to 175). Then, after accounts were settled (at $10 for every overweight pound), he would head for three weeks at Key West and his first real vacation...
...thick-spectacled, 43-year-old Anton Karas to London, kept him plucking away at his tunes for six weeks while Reed recorded a sound track. When the film was released two months ago in England, Karas' music caused as much of a furor as Reed's directing, Graham Greene's lickety-split script, or the acting of the all-star cast (Joseph Cotten, Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard...
...Fallen Idol. Author Graham Greene and Director Carol Reed wring suspense from the story of a small boy (Bobby Henrey) in a world of adult intrigues; with Ralph Richardson and Michele Morgan (TIME, April...
...Down. Brokenshire reached the top of his trade with such other pioneers as Milton Cross and Ted Husing (both still in radio), Harry von Zell (now in movies and radio on the West Coast) and the late Graham McNamee. By 1930 he had also hit the bottom, and was trying the first of many comebacks. It failed when, after a couple of years, Chesterfield fired him for unreliability...
...Fallen Idol. Author Graham Greene and Director Carol Reed wring suspense from the story of a small boy (Bobby Henrey) in a world of adult intrigues; with Ralph Richardson and Michele Morgan (TIME, April...