Word: janes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passed, the case seemed more & more hopeless; the hospital assumed that the baby must be dead. Then, last week, after 26 days, the police got a tip. It led them to a cheap Manhattan hotel; there they found their quarry, a wild-eyed, 25-year-old domestic named Evelyn Jane Jordan. Police believed the worst: there was no baby in her littered room. Taken away for questioning, the kidnaper stubbornly denied ever seeing...
...next hour, the authorities' amazement grew. Evelyn Jane Jordan was suffering from hysteria and epilepsy. She said she had recently given birth to premature twins who had died, and confessed, almost incoherently, to an unreasoning desire to have a baby of her own. She described going from hospital to hospital until she had a chance to steal one. But for all her irrationality she had treated the baby, with love and kindness...
...Graduate Student Council elected 15 new members in voting which took place April 20, President George Gibian 3G announced last night. Those with special NSA duties are Mary Jane Comerford, Frank L. Parker 1G, and William Rosen...
Lopez decided that his vocalist, whom he had first billed as Betty Jane, deserved a new name. A firm believer in numerology, he let the numbers lead him to "Hutton." "I tried to get a vibration that would make her a lot of money," he says. "It was a five-eight vibration. After that she did fine." By the time the band played Billy Rose's Casa Mañana, Betty had whipped her own vibrations into enough of a frenzy to dazzle Manhattan at last-and to make Rose caution her not to "tear down my theater...
Nancy Goes to Rio (MGM) works some Latin American backgrounds and tempos into the story of a teen-ager (Jane Powell) who aspires to the theatrical fame already reached by her mother (Ann Sothern) and her grandfather (Louis Calhern). She wins a coveted Broadway role for which her mother believes herself cast. On the way to a vacation in Rio, Jane rehearses it so convincingly in a deck chair that fellow passengers accept her as the character, who is on the way to unwed motherhood. Coffee Tycoon Barry Sullivan falls under suspicion as the man who did her wrong...