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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such fast comic company. Alex Mackenzie, an actor who taught school in Clydebank until he was 61, is a grizzled old Scots beauty, and he can "throw a tub to a whale" (the Scottish phrase, aptly enough, for sharp practice) like few men since Sir Harry Lauder. Hubert Gregg makes a sopping good Milquetoast as Douglas' male secretary, who is haplessly stationed aboard the Maggie to see that the boss's orders are carried out. And the bonny little fiend of a cabin boy, Tommy Kearins, with his soup-bowl haircut and that grand commercial light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 13, 1954 | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

...used to." Colleen cannot get modeling dates, either, and when a girl cannot get modeling dates in New York, there is nothing for her to do. it would appear, but to ac cept the $100 kind. She winds up moiling for mobsters, but in due time finds a way (Gregg Palmer) to restore her amateur standing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 28, 1954 | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

Born. To Horace Dodge Jr., 53, motor millionaire, and his fifth wife, Gregg Sherwood (real name: Dora Mae Fjelstad), 30, blonde ex-showgirl: their first child (his fifth), a son; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Name: John Francis. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 29, 1954 | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

...dash' of that." Some papers provide their editors with elaborate test kitchens, but most food writers try their recipes at home, must be ready to answer the phone at all hours to rescue a distraught hostess trapped in mid-soufflé. Says Louisville Courier-Journal's Cissy Gregg: "They call me sometimes at 2 or 3 a.m. and say 'Look, I'm making such and such and this is where I am. Now what's next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Kitchen Department | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

...closer inspection, the appointment looked like a natural. By naming Upton, Gregg had healed a party wound, placating the old-line party organization men, who had resented the 1952 treatment of their vice chairman. Upton emphasized that he was accepting the appointment "without condition," but politicos guessed that he will not run next year, when the seat must be filled by election. That would leave a wide-open race for other candidates, probably including young Hugh Gregg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wound Closed, Race Opened | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

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