Word: guys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even a solemn-toned, pipe-smoking, God-fearing President like lovable, old Jean Hersholt can not conceal. (And I want it understood that I am not saying one unkind word against the man who brought the darling Dionne Quintuplets into this world. I've got cockles like the next guy.) Nevertheless, President Hersholt has stated that the Academy subsidy has been withdrawn because the Awards have been given consistently on artistic rather than commercial merit, which is what he says the studies want...
...first week, Ruppel fired Articles Editor Walter Ross and Art Director Tony Palazzo. (Said Palazzo: "It was only the second time I spoke to the guy. The first time was when we were introduced.") Fiction Editor Kenneth Littauer hadn't waited to see what would happen; when he heard Ruppel was coming, he went...
This week, for the sixth time in his eleven seasons with the Yankees, the big guy would be out of the line-up on opening day. But this time it was no mere strained tendon. As far as baseball was concerned, Joe DiMaggio, one of the greatest outfielders and money hitters in history, was in critical condition...
Died. Wallace Fitzgerald Beery, 63, lumbering veteran (more than 200 movies since 1913) cinemactor; of a heart aik ment; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Famed for his bluff, tough-guy-with-a-heart-of-gold roles (though he started in films as a female impersonator), Beery was a box-office favorite for years in such money-making pictures as Tugboat Annie and Min and Bill (with Marie Dressier), The Big House, Grand Hotel, Viva Villa!, won an Academy award in 1931 for his role as the good-natured pug-ugly in The Champ...
...comedy. Their one redeeming feature is that they do seem to have affection for their mother. This hardly outweighs the rudeness with which they treat her suitor on-stage and the crimes they have committed off-stage. Even as criminals, they are not very interesting, and the "tough-guy with the one soft spot" angle has never amsued me. I think it may be that I have more concern for their mother than they do. I know I don't share Mrs. Gibbons' attitude (and the writers') towards her three juvenile delinquents, Ma Gibbons' love-blindness, the probable cause...