Word: janes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Thomas Francis ("Tommy") Dorsey, 44, belligerent, trombone-tootling bandleader (the "Sentimental Gentleman of Swing"), and third wife Jane New Dorsey, 26: their first child (his third), a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Catherine Susan. Weight...
After deep thought, Hollywood Art Director Emrich Nicholson concluded that glamour girls look their best only against exactly the right backgrounds. For example, he said, Betty Grable shows up fine in a curlicued Louis XV setting, and Jane Russell seems to "go with a haystack." Nicholson found one exception: Ava Gardner. "With that face and figure? Heavens, she'd stand out in front of almost anything...
...whole production-including Horace Armistead's sets and Robert Lewis' staging-has been done with style. Though an effective Regina in her first serious Broadway role, Jane Pickens, with perhaps the least vocal right, leaves the most determinedly operatic impression. More memorable are Brenda Lewis' overall performance as the pathetic Birdie and Newcomer Russell Nype's comic charm as the loathsome...
...miles and bomb load of 5,000 Ibs. Some experts believe that the plane is too light to pick up Russia's Abomb, but another four-jet bomber, the German-designed JU-287 (bomb load nearly 9,000 Ibs.) is said by Jane's to be in "limited production" at Kuibyshev...
...fastest fighter on view in the 1947 displays was (Jane's thinks) the YAK-17, a single-jet plane which looks something like Republic's Thunderjet. Probable maximum speed of the YAK-17: around 650 m.p.h. Jane's also reports a "research" plane of German design with a maximum speed of nearly 685 m.p.h. This is probably the plane which the Russians claim has passed the sonic barrier...