Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Van Johnson, 32, pink-haired cinemactor; and Eve Abbott Wynn Johnson, 31, ex-wife but still good friend of Van's good friend, Actor Keenan Wynn; a daughter, his first child, her third; in Los Angeles. Name: Schuyler Van. Weight...
Died. Albert Mussey Johnson, 75, retired insurance executive, grubstaker of "Death Valley Scotty" and his legend of a fabulous gold mine; after an operation; in Los Angeles. Johnson met Desert Rat Scott in 1904, thereafter kept him supplied with enough money to maintain-for 26 years-the hoax of a private bonanza. Johnson built Scotty a $3,000,000 castle in the '30s, revealed in 1941 that he had also "lent" him $500,000 over three decades. Chuckled Johnson: "He paid me back in laughs...
...best actor for Life with Father and The Senator Was Indiscreet. The National Board of Review picked Britain's Michael Redgrave for his playing of Orin in Dudley Nichols' Hollywood-made production of Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra; and Britain's Celia Johnson (who got the prize last year from Manhattan critics) for This Happy Breed...
...leading characters are Johnny Somers, history teacher; Crow Johnson, a hard-eyed, mean, man-about-Pineboro; Bill Boone, onetime football star; and Blackie Boone, his wife-"ask anybody in Fillmore about her." The portraits have the hard authenticity of those notices that are put up in post offices of people who are wanted for murder. And the characters seem like suspects in Author Gibbons' police lineup, blinking in the limelight, not quite sure of what they are charged with...
Monotonous. In Los Angeles, Ernest Johnson was accused of assault by wife Susie Johnson, arrested by Detective Sergeants H. R. Johnson and E. T. Johnston, and defended in court by M. O. Johnson...