Word: joan
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...mile run, Karla Amble took an early lead while Kristen Metz and Joan Corsiglia battled it out for second and third. Corsiglia let loose in the last lap, though, and gave Amble a run for her money, coming in .2 seconds behind Amble...
...they did so with style: 7 gold medals and 2 U.S. Open records (basically equivalent to world records for yards). But the real story behind this weekend's gathering was the guests who didn't show up--among them Tracy Caulkins (five gold medals, four world records at Berlin), Joan Pennington (two golds, one silver), Kim Linehan (former 400-m. freestyle world record holder), and a few more of America's finest female fish...
Warren Beatty is filming two biographies, one on Howard Hughes, the other about Radical Journalist John Reed, who witnessed the Russian Revolution in 1917 and wrote about it in Ten Days that Shook the World. One of the most sensational biographies of all involves Joan Crawford's daughter Christina, even now beavering away on a screenplay version of her best-selling assault on Joan, with Anne Bancroft tentatively booked to play Bad Mama. Broadway has not escaped the trend, and there are plans for plays based on the lives of Dorothy Parker, United Mine Workers Czar John L. Lewis...
...complain, they look livelier and livelier to the Hollywood idea men in the age of gossip. Trouble is, complains Rod Steiger, a man who has already portrayed ten historical characters on the screen, including Napoleon and W.C. Fields, the wrong shades are being called back from the dead. "Joan Crawford? That's entertainment value. But go out and try to do the life of Beethoven or Albert Schweitzer or Einstein. You march into a producer's office and say you want to do Einstein, and they'll say, 'Where are the girls...
While their wives went to programs for the women's division (Joan Kennedy spoke to them about improving one's self-image), the men attended seminars on such subjects as the potential deregulation of the industry (the owners don't want it) and the tariff problems of heavy carriers. Representatives from all 51 A.T.A. state chapters listened, debated (often heatedly) and took notes. "Our company feels this is a way of life," said Newton Graves Jr., a vice president of Yellow Freight System, one of the nation's largest common carriers. "We have 15 people...