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...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...
When she was picked as the only successful candidate in a group of 15 auditioning for the Sadler's Wells ballet school last week, Heller, nine-year-old daughter of Mary Martin, announced that her new idol was Moira Shearer. Furthermore, she said, "I want to be the greatest ballerina in the world. I don't want to sing and act like my mother...
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...
Ivor was a national idol overnight. His delicately handsome profile, photographed in a thousand lights, became somehow confused in the public mind with a patriotic poster, and to lonely wives and mothers he became a romantic surrogate for the men away at war. The movies invited him into their realms of gold and in he went...