Word: janes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jane Slater, who plays the third of the damned souls, has somewhat more trouble than her colleagues, partly because she is miscast. While her part calls for an empty-headed doll who hides the murder of her child underneath an appearance of innocence, she can contribute only a sort of statusque intensity. But she tries hard, and at some moments brings her role to life. The only other member of the cast, John Mautner, manages to get some humor into his portrayal of an attendant in hell. Much of the success of all these actors can be credited to director...
Dream Man. The pattern of Phil Graham's life is the envy of many a politician and looks, indeed, like a quick montage of the American dream. Graham was born in South Dakota in the Black Hills mining town of Terry, near the site where Calamity Jane died. When Phil was six, his father Ernest, an engineer who had tried mining and farming in South Dakota and Michigan with no luck, took the family to the Florida Everglades to launch an ambitious agricultural experiment for a sugar company. After a dozen years of floods, muck fires, hurricanes, frost...
Four klieg lights stabbing the sky over Hollywood and Vine one night last week signaled the opening of a new office building that is strange even for Hollywood: a 13-story smogscraper, round as a record. On the street below, Jane Russell, Connie Haines, Dick Haymes, Gordon MacRae and Tennessee Ernie Ford strolled over a red carpet into the $2,000,000 reinforced-concrete tower as the crowd cheered and loudspeakers blared...
...Jane Jacobs, staff member of Architectural Forum, discussed the need for small "holes in the wall" as informal centers of an urban area...
Made to Order. "I don't know why," said freckle-faced Patricia Jane Berg, 38, at Augusta last week, "but somehow this tournament means more than the others. Everyone sort of naturally points for the Titleholders." Since she won the very first Titleholders in 1937, the chunky (5 ft. 2½ in., 140 Ibs.) Chicago redhead has pointed for it so successfully that she has taken first money five other times. Patty Berg's record puts her far ahead of ailing Babe Didrikson Zaharias, her closest competitor, who took three Titleholder championships...