Word: lastly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story had made the rounds in Rome, where newspapers first printed it in August. Hedda Hopper gingerly slipped it into her gossip column last month as a rumor, and Hollywood had buzzed with it ever since. But last week, when Columnist Louella Parsons spread it as fact all over the front pages of the Hearst papers, a nation of moviegoers gawked. Screamed Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner across eight columns: INGRID BERGMAN BABY DUE IN 3 MONTHS IN ROME...
...Ingrid and Rossellini made it plain that they would be married as soon as she gets a divorce from her husband. "Unfortunately," explained Ingrid, "there have been some difficulties; otherwise I would already be Roberto's wife." Added the director: "Ingrid explained things quite clearly to Mr. Lindstrom last May when she saw him in Messina during a 48-hour visit. Our situation was fully discussed. And I want to make clear that at that time the relationship between Ingrid and myself was absolutely correct. It is not our fault, is it, if we cannot get married because Ingrid...
Since the war, bloodstained melodramas full of brutality and violence have been especially popular on the U.S. screen. Last week Britain's Board of Film Censors sternly warned Hollywood-and producers elsewhere-to mop up the gore or have offending films scissored to bits and possibly banned outright...
...again caught the full fury of war in the Pacific. Pavuvu is a stinking, rat-infested little island in the Solomons, fit neither for marine nor Gook. Some men went "Asiatic" (regular Marine lingo for rock-happy). A sentry walked his muddy post for four hours, stopped at the last tent as his relief reported, put his rifle to his mouth and blew the top of his head off. This seemed so reasonably symptomatic of the division's island sickness that a marine in a nearby tent only growled: "Now I gotta find the padre. It's getting...
Contempt of Court. In Troy, N.Y., Police Justice Thomas O'Connor complained that within the last month ten traffic violators had paid their fines with bad checks. In Knoxville, Tenn., Jimmy Doyle was charged with the theft of a raincoat, an overcoat, a shotgun and an $8 check from his lawyer's office...