Word: jo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Virginia Capt Rota), arrested at the frontier as she sought to enter France last month, was found guilty of possessing Swiss anti-aircraft defense secrets. She was supposedly to deliver them by roundabout route to Italy. She was sentenced to five years in jail. With her were convicted Roger Joël, former draftsman in a Swiss arms plant; Paul Rochat, a Geneva detective, and Rochat's wife Dolly. In jail, Dancer Nina hunger-struck and tried suicide (wrist-slitting...
...years a celebrity sculptor, bushy-whiskered Jo Davidson is known for his studies of presidents, generals, kings and Gertrude Stein. Of late "Headhunter" Davidson's social types have changed. Dedicated last autumn in Claremore, Okla. was his memorial statue of the late homespun Humorist Will Rogers. Exhibited in Manhattan last November were his portrait busts, made under fire in Spain, of the leaders of the People's Army. Last week when chunky Sculptor Davidson stepped ashore in Manhattan, glowering amiably, he brought with him from Paris a seven-foot, two-ton bronze statue of Walt Whitman, a People...
Made for Each Other was produced by David Oliver Selznick, directed by John Cromwell, written by Jo Swerling and acted, principally, by James Stewart and Carole Lombard. Which of these deserves most credit for the indisputable fact that this mundane, domestic chronicle has more dramatic impact than all the hurricanes, sandstorms and earthquakes manufactured in Hollywood last season is a mystery which does not demand solution. What does demand solution is why, when Hollywood can make pictures as sound as Made for Each Other, it practically never does...
...players were given loosening up work and light throwing and then subjected to a short batting drill with the pitchers tossing them, in at half speed. Regular Varsity team men from last year reporting for the first team were outfielders Bob Gannett, Rud Hoye, and Jo-Jo Soltz, and infielder Dick Grondahl. Last year's Freshman regulars include Jim Tully, Fred Keyes, and Charlie Davis...
Cinema tributes to historical celebrities are often ungratefully received. Last November, descendants of Ferdinand de Lesseps, who had 17 children, growled because Suez failed to show that their progenitor had married. Last week, after a Hollywood preview of Jesse James, Miss Jo Frances James, not a bank robber but a Los Angeles bank executive, said: "About the only connection it had with fact was that there was once a man named James and he did ride a horse...