Word: laird
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wake Up Screaming (20th Century-Fox) is a showcase for the renowned torsos of bountiful Betty Grable and beautiful Victor Mature. A melodramiable mystery, well-directed, nicely acted, competently atmospherical, it is notable for a complete absence of gunplay and for a slick performance by enormous (290-lb). Laird Cregar, as the psychopathic head of a homicide squad...
...Patrick Dollan is a stern, old-fashioned Socialist and onetime conscientious objector who has presided since 1938 over Glasgow as Lord Provost (mayor) of Britain's most radical city. In a career of laird-baiting he has come to consider himself an expert on such families as that of the young Duke of Hamilton, on whose estate Rudolf Hess landed unexpectedly last month. Sir Pat claimed last week to have the lowdown on the Hess case. The "genuine truth," as he revealed it to a War Weapons Week audience in Fifeshire...
Interviewed in Berlin by TIME'S Stephen Laird, who described him as "a tall, handsome, crisp-mannered, crisp-dressed person, with crisp iron-grey hair, gritted eyes and teeth," the Goebbels galloper disclosed he had gone to private school in Baltimore, never to college, entered the advertising business at 18, got a commission in the Navy just before the close of World War I, ran a signed news-roundup column after the war in the Baltimore Sunday American called This and That...
What U.S. correspondents in Germany think of how the war is going-unlike the opinions of newsmen in Bern, Stockholm, Ankara and almost everywhere else-had until last week been little heard in the U.S. To find out, TIME'S Stephen Laird got 18 U.S. newsmen in Berlin (all except those of United Press and Chicago Daily News') to answer a questionnaire telling, as they saw it, how things are going, how the war is likely...
Elected Vice-Presidents of the Alumni Association, to serve one year, were Laird Bell '04, of Chicago; Franklin E. Parker Jr. '18, of New York; and Henry W. Clark '23, of Easton...