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Word: janes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...phone rang in the oval study. It was Mary Jane Truman in Grandview, Mo. with distressing news. Old Mrs. Truman, the President's mother, had fallen from her bed the night before and broken her right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Blue-Plate Special | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...stayed about 25 minutes. Then, because Sister Mary Jane had "too many things to do," he went down the street to the Grandview Cafe for lunch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Blue-Plate Special | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...Kenny Baker; a straight man who writes songs and gets the girl. Typical comedy routine: a firemen's tug of war complicated by a banana peel and a sneeze. All this corn has a kind of innocence about it that is almost-but not quite-disarming enough. Jane Frazee, despite her waxworks role and surroundings, is human, likable and nice to look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Feb. 24, 1947 | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...Stage 8" television theater. Her chief assets: a lovely, sensitive face; an already subtle skill at timing; a gentle but conspicuous talent. ¶ Julie London, "discovered" by Agent Sue Carol running a Hollywood store elevator (which studio publicists claim had also been previously operated by Susan Peters and Jane Russell). Her chief asset : she vigorously communicates just about all the oomph a teen-ager decently could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Feb. 17, 1947 | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...Yearling. Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman in a rather glossy Technicolored version of the Rawlings novel about poor folks in Florida (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Feb. 17, 1947 | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

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