Word: janes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four Smith children - Lawrence Byron, Sally Jane, Mary Ann and Vir ginia Lee, aged 4 to 14 - sang Happy Birthday...
Married. Cinemactress Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell, 21, "still"-starred cinemactress (her first film, The Outlaw, is yet to be generally released); and her old steady, Robert Staton Waterfield, 22, U.C.L.A. Rose Bowl quarterback; in Las Vegas...
...Communist campaign progressed nicely until last week, when the B.O.M. Club suddenly gave the New York World-Telegram the club's-eye view of the gang-up. The club revealed, for instance, that its waggish editorial member, Christopher Morley, had sent a telegram to Jane Benedict, president of the protesting Book and Magazine Union. Said Mr. Morley: "Assume principal objection is to chapter where Commissar Dlugash, Georgian renegade, makes his burlesque of Stalin." Miss Benedict wired back: "Other passages equally objectionable as one you mention." The curious thing was that The Fifth Seal contained no such episode...
...London Daily Mirror, splashy, successful tabloid (circulation: 1,850,000, England's second largest), thrives partly because it is sexy. Its most popular comic strip "Jane," features shapely ladies an inch nearer naked than U.S. comic artists dare draw: the straight news the Mirror prints is generously laved in sob sisters' gravy. (One recent article announced that motherhood is the "Cinderella of the Professions," and urged all young wives to bear at least four children...
...estate, estimated at well under $50,000,000 (about a third of what his father left in 1913), went to his two sons, Naval Reserve Commander Junius Spencer Morgan and Lieut. Commander Henry Sturgis Morgan. Lesser bequests included $25,000 apiece to daughters Frances Tracy Pennoyer and Jane Norton Nichols, their husbands Paul and George, and daughters-in-law Louise Converse Morgan and Catherine Adams Morgan; $50,000 apiece to his secretary, John Axten, and Director Belle da Costa Greene of the Pierpont Morgan Library in Manhattan; $25,000 to butler Henry Physick; $20,000 apiece to valet Bernard Stewart...