Word: idols
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Idol of these happy fans is Catcher Josh (for Joshua) Gibson, a hulking 215-pounder with features vaguely suggestive of a very dark Babe Ruth. Sportswriters like Shirley Povich of the Washington Post maintain that Josh Gibson would be worth his weight in gold to any white ball club. The immortal Walter Johnson once valued Gibson...
Swart, handsome, curly-haired Gene Krupa, drumming idol of swarms of jitterbugs, paled as a San Francisco jury found him guilty of using a minor (his 20-year-old valet) to transport marijuana cigarets. He had claimed that he was handed an envelope by a stranger, did not know what was in it. As his lawyer prepared to appeal, Krupa prepared to face the music, one to six years in San Quentin...
...Manhattan playhouse, at the Paramount, at the Lucky Strike Hit Parade, hundreds of little long-haired, round-faced girls in bobby socks sat transfixed. They were worshipers of one Francis Albert Sinatra, crooner extraordinary. Their idol, a gaunt young man (25), looked as if he could stand a square meal and considerable mothering. A composite picture of his idolaters' reactions to his public appearances last week...
Divorced. Lionel Atwill, 58, onetime matinee idol; by Henrietta Louise Cromwell Atwill, fiftyish, ex-wife of General Douglas MacArthur; after 13 years of marriage (third for each); in Washington, D.C. She is a sister of onetime Minister to Canada James H. R. ("Jimmie") Cromwell...
Sued for Divorce. Lionel Atwill, 58, oldtime matinee idol ; by Louise Cromwell Brooks MacArthur Atwill, 49, first wife of General Douglas MacArthur; after 13 years; in Washington...