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Word: joans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Signature, Radcliffe's literary magazine, will not fold, although under present publication conditions, its total debt will be $632 by June, Joan Braverman '50, student government president, said last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Braverman Says Signature Will Not Collapse This Year | 3/1/1950 | See Source »

...million newspaper readers, Hollywood's biggest bigwigs fear to talk back. Turning to its daily trade papers on Valentine's Day last week, Hollywood gawked at two full-page ads. Neatly encircled by a heart, the ads carried a rudely unsentimental message for Hedda from Actress Joan Bennett, wife of Producer Walter (Joan of Arc) Wanger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Meow! | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

...side was an excerpt from a Hedda column gibing at Actress Joan Fontaine. On the other was an excerpt from a column by Hearst's Harry Crocker, frequent escort of Actress Fontaine, noting an "inane attack in print by a certain female." "Hollywood," Crocker had written, "realizes that [such] ridiculous outbreaks are the result of her years of frustration as a jobless actress." Below, signed Joan Bennett, was the query: "This COULDN'T be you, could it, Hedda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Meow! | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

Later that day Actress Bennett's chauffeur drew up to Hedda's home and delivered another remembrance: a live skunk (deodorized). Sniffed Joan, still smarting over a recent crack at her in Hedda's column: "I've had enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Meow! | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

...underestimated her fox. Baring her claws a bit, Hedda told a newsman: "I didn't think the Wangers could afford the ad ... I'm completely surprised but completely amused." To her readers she sweetly announced: "It was a good publicity skunk and beautifully behaved. I christened it Joan." Then she gave the animal to the James Masons, who had been looking for one "as a companion for their nine cats. Seems there is a great affinity between cats and skunks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Meow! | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

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