Word: idol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That year a matinee idol died at the age of 31. TIME reported of Rudolph Valentino's funeral that "traffic was choked with grieving thousands...
...seriously discussed as possibly "the finest writer of his generation." No other writer in England enjoys Greene's combination of popular and critical success. The Midas-movies have touched his work to gold (twelve pictures, at least three of them first-rate successes: The Fallen Idol, The Third Man, Confidential Agent). In 1948, The Heart of the Matter was a Book-of-the-Month Club choice in the U.S., and on the Continent Greene is England's bestselling author...
...Picture Player. If Joe meant what he said, he was writing the end to a 16-year career that had made the youngster from the San Francisco fishing wharfs a public idol almost overnight. Modest to the point of reticence, and a moody introvert at times, Joe has always lacked the flash and dash of a Babe Ruth or a Ty Cobb; he was a perfectionist of the diamond, a picture player in the Frank Chance tradition. No catch ever looked tough, the way Joe loped up and cradled it. No stance at the plate-bat poised and feet widespread...
...painter (Gene Kelly), happily roughing it on the Left Bank, picks up a charming shopgirl (Leslie Caron). They fall in love. He holds off a pleasantly wolf-girlish American heiress (Nina Foch) who is determinedly sponsoring him. But the shopgirl feels a stronger commitment to the devoted music-hall idol (Georges Guetary) who sheltered her through a wartime childhood. As it must for all lovers, especially in Paris, love finds...
Unanimous Approval. The decision was approved just as unanimously by most of baseball. Frick, now 56 and greying, never realized his ambition of becoming a big league first baseman like his idol Cap Anson.* But even as an English professor (Colorado College), he never strayed far from the game. During World War I he worked with the War Department's rehabilitation division, then returned to a job as sportwriter for the Colorado Springs Telegraph. In 1919, after Arthur Brisbane saw some of his stories, Frick was called to New York...