Word: janes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Producer Howard Hughes was trying to market The Outlaw, his film horse opera starring busty Jane Russell, as a frank sexhibition (TiME, March 25). Sample ballyhoo line: "How would you like to tussle with Russell?" His efforts were not going unnoticed by the public, the industry, the police, the church...
...Grandview, Mo. airport to meet him were his mother, who had been in bed with a cold, his brother, Vivian, and his sister, Mary Jane Truman. Visitors were banned. After a night in Kansas City's Muehlebach Hotel, the presidential party drove some 50 miles to 97-year-old William Jewell College at Liberty...
...Eglise in Normandy. Said Mrs. George S. Patton: "I feel soldiers should stay where they fall. . . . General Patton . . . would always have wanted to have been buried with his men." Mrs. Simon Bolivar Buckner, whose husband was killed in action at Okinawa, expressed the same thought. So did Mrs. Clara Jane Hawkins, mother of the Marine lieutenant for whom Tarawa's airfield is named, and the young widow of another Marine hero, Sergeant John Basilone who died...
...figure 18½ had come to be almost as popular as the figure of Jane Russell. Within four months, it had become fashionable to settle industrial disputes with an 18½?-an-hour wage increase. So far, it had been granted to workers in steel, rubber, electrical plants (G.E. and G.M.), and was the average raise in the auto industry...
...Author. Novelist Ward was born in Fairmount, Ind., has been married 18 years. The Snake Pit is her fourth novel. She has finished the first draft of a fifth novel and the outline of a sixth. Says her husband: "Mary Jane isn't happy unless she has a novel under...