Word: idolator
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Louis learned his part so well he soon ceased to be a puppet. Today, after four years of monopolizing the world's heavyweight championship, he is not only the idol of his race but one of the most respectable prizefighters of all time. From the sorry pass to which a series of second-raters had brought it (Sharkey, Camera, Baer, Braddock), he restored the world's championship to the gate and almost the vigor that it had in Dempsey...
Sued for Divorce, Oldtime Matinee Idol Maurice Costello, 64, father of ex-Cinemactresses Dolores and Helene; by Ruth Reeves Costello, thirtyish, his second wife; in Los Angeles...
Burgomaster Max was a short, slim & trim bachelor with a sharp eye for a pretty face or ankle. Sporting a torpedo beard and boulevardier's mustache, he was a gay cock sparrow in silk hat, frock coat and gold chain, the idol of the citizenry. As familiar to Bruxellois as his magnificent whiskers was his series of white pinschers, all called "Happy...
...Lieut. General Seishiro Itagaki was removed as Chief of the General Staff of the Japanese forces in China, promoted to the rank of general and sent to command the Japanese forces in Korea. Mummy-faced General Itagaki ("I have often been likened to a corpse on reprieve") is the idol of the younger, Fascist-minded Army faction, is credited with originating the North China buffer state plan, which he carried out in Manchukuo. An attempt to carve another buffer state out of the Maritime Province of Siberia might well begin with an offensive from Korea...
...Rose Lee, who has turned author, written The G-String Murder Mystery for fall publication, declared in Detroit: "No more movies or Broadway for me. I like the saloons, where I can work as long as I want to and lay off when I want to. ∙∙ Matinee Idol Francis Lederer married Marion Irvine four days after his exwife, Marge, brought suit for $12,822.23. She said he signed a promissory note for that sum the day she sued for divorce last December. ∙∙ Brooklyn-born Sigrid Gurie (Algiers, Marco Polo) applied for U.S. citizenship...