Word: idolator
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rummaging through some old personal papers and other documents, he and a collaborator had reconstructed an original screenplay missing since 1923, when its author sent it to Paramount studios. It was called I Have Just Begun to Fight, a stirring film biography of Admiral John Paul Jones, a lifelong idol of the scenarist, Franklin D. Roosevelt, who wrote it when Assistant Secretary of the Navy...
...three-year-old, Alfred G. Vanderbilt's Native Dancer became something of a TV matinee idol. Racing for the triple crown, the great grey put on three breathtaking finishing sprints that would have done credit to "Snapper" Garrison, the jockey who became immortal for his come-from-behind finishes. The Dancer lost the Kentucky Derby by a head, won the Preakness by a neck, won the Belmont by an even shorter neck. Last week the Dancer, now a full-grown four-year-old, was back again, this time going after racing's triple handicap crown (the Metropolitan, Suburban...
...three years later he decided to give music up to become a priest, a Paulist like his idol, Father Finn. "I had the idea of becoming a priest from a small boy," he says. Manhattan helped."I used to float around with a lot of theatrical people, and they didn't impress me very much." Instead of depriving him of his music, the church gave it back...
...Freddy Deline, a onetime acrobat and now an aging matinee idol who hopes to squeeze some Diss money out of Katie to back his new show...
...Nasser's first attempt to clip Naguib's wings eight weeks ago, he had ordered him placed under house arrest. Such arbitrary treatment of a man built up as the public's idol sent hundreds of thousands swarming into the streets of Cairo to protest. Surprised, Nasser put Naguib back in office and settled back to await a more propitious moment...