Word: lew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Second feature, "Dr. Kildare's Crisis," suggests the possibility of perpetual motion. It looks like Lew Ayres is going to pursue Laraine Day forever. Lionel Barrymore and the customary minor characters are present along with Robert Young, who was probably thrown in to differentiate this from the first five in the series. In the news reel, the Wendell Wilkie crusade sweeps through England with W.W. discussing things with everyone from Churchill to the man in the shelter. Unfortunately for those wearied by his hoarse-voiced campaign. Willkie is still doing most of the talking...
...Mickey Walker, looking very little like the "Toy Bulldog" terror of the '20s; Politicuffing Restaurateur Jack Dempsey (lightly supporting Lou Salica, current bantam champ); leering Jimmy Braddock, erstwhile rags-to-riches Heavyweight Champion (with Tommy Forte, Salica's hottest rival, on his shoulders); and skinny, Texas-drawling Lew Jenkins, who can lick all lightweights...
...Theatre once had to serve breakfast, lunch and tea to a queue of 300 who had lined up 24 hours before a Lawrence first night. In the U. S. she played in another Chariot's Revue, the Gershwin musicomedy Oh, Kay!, Treasure Girl, Candle Light with Leslie Howard, Lew Leslie's International Review, Noel Coward's Private Lives and Tonight at 8:30 with her old friend, recently Susan and God and Skylark...
Brill, known in his Freshman year as "Brill the Barrel" and last year as "Liquid Lew," explained that he "took the vow" one Sunday morning early this summer. Advising the pledge for all his fellow students as a cure-all that really works, he pointed to himself as a staggering example: "Before I decided to follow Babson, what was I?" he asked. "A nobody. And now look at me: I'm chairman of the Brill-for-Babson club of Harvard University...
Three men reported for the first time yesterday, Lew Harder, Bill Stedman, and Dave Glass. The latter is a crew man, encouraged by Tom Bolles to try his hand at football...