Word: griffin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Summer Holiday (Tues. & Thurs. 7:45 p.m., CBS) features Singer Betty Ann Grove, who used to be a TV colleague of Bert Parks and has absorbed much of his manic, eye-batting vitality. The co-star is Singer Merv Griffin. The show was created by Irving Mansfield, who last summer created almost exactly the same show for the same sponsor, but it was then called Summertime, U.S.A. and starred Singers Teresa Brewer and Mel Torme...
Bracing Brother. In 1932 the Griffins are a well-to-do Los Angeles family, so close that no member breathes except through the smothering palm of another. Father Griffin, balding and in his late 503, is not out of Clarence Day, but out of a manual on corporate management. To him, his children are irresponsible junior executives who must submit periodic balance sheets on their behavior. "What have we here?" he asks in his raised-eyebrow voice when the accounts are out of line. Mother Griffin has a large, solid body, but her brain is the stuff pillows are made...
Last away from the post and well clear of the confusion in the early going was top-weighted (161 Ibs.) Royal Tan, a ten-year-old gelding. Royal Tan is Irish-bred, owned, trained and ridden. His owner is J. H. Griffin, a 36-year-old candymaker from Templeogue, near Dublin. His jockey was a redhead named Bryan Marshall, who was born in Tipperary and raised in Limerick. His trainer was Vincent O'Brien from Tipperary...
...over the final jump like a leprechaun, shook off Tudor Line's challenge in the straightaway, and won by a neck. Just a year ago, with another Irish steeplechaser named Early Mist, the Irish owner-trainer-jockey combination won England's 1O7th Grand National. Exulted Owner Griffin last week: "No other owner has ever won two consecutive Grand Nationals with different horses. Next year we'll try to make it three...
Amidst the glamor and glitter of Manhattan's annual Gotham Debutante Ball, photographers closed in on a pair of lens-catchers, one of the year's most photogenic mother-and-daughter combinations, perennially beautiful Cinemactress Irene Dunne and Debutante Mary Frances Griffin...