Word: jo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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None of this prevented Los Angeles' hundreds of publicity-minded folk from gleefully using the smog for their own purposes. Singer Jo Stafford arrived in town carrying two caged canaries, cracked: "It's an old miner's trick; if the canaries die I go back to New York...
...opportunity of discussing this theater with Jo Mielziner a few months ago. Mr. Mielziner, who designed the sets for "Mister Roberts," "South Pacific," "A Streetear Named Desire," and "Death of a Salesman," is beyond a doubt America's top scenic designer. His feeling is that "the present method of flying scenery above the stage is still the fastest, most efficient means of shifting. Modern drama is written with flying scenery in mind, and for this reason 'The New Theater' cannot be adapted by the commercial theater for quite some time...
Comedian Paul Silvers and wife Jo Carroll Dennison agreed on a temporary separation: she took a "bachelor" apartment, and he went home to his mother-in-law, "who understands me better than anyone else in the world...
...puts strong feelings into his sculpture (TIME, Aug. 30, 1948), and has plenty left over when he has laid aside his mallet. Last week Mestrovic received an urgent invitation to return to Yugoslavia, where he was born and made his fame. The invitation came through Fellow Sculptor Jo Davidson, who had recently completed a bust of Marshal Tito, and it was from the Dictator himself. "Tell Mestrovic," Tito had said, "not to be a fool. Tell him to come back." The expatriate sculptor's blunt reply: "Too many of my friends are in jail over there...
Softball: "R's"--Barbara Beatley '50, Mary Brandt '51, Abigail Caplan '50, Nina Emerson '50, Ellen Guild '52, Jo'ann Jehl '50, Margaret Mealy '52, Elizabeth Tucker '52 and Diane Wertz '51; numerals--Emily Ingraham '51 and Nancy Westover...