Word: lombard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Duke Ellington was the nation's No. 1 bandleader (for the fifth time), and top soloist (for the first time), according to Down Beat magazine's annual poll. Spike Jones was again King of Corn, nosing out Guy Lombard and Vaughn Monroe...
Eliot also continued its winning ways by edging a previously undefeated Kirkland squad by two points in an up and down, 31 to 29 game. The score changed almost as often as shots were sunk, but despite heroic efforts by the Deacon's tall center John Lombard, a last minute basket and foul by Fred England clinched the game for the Mastodons...
Although Kirkland led all the way, the margin was never great enough for either team to relax and the starting lineups played practically all the game. Two factors gave Kirkland the win: effective coverage of Winthrop's 6'7" pivot, Ted Nelson by John Lombard, and the Deacon fast breaks which frequently shot into the clear. Lombard at center and John Pankey at forward did most of the Kirkland damage on the offensive...
...solid hits in two successive pictures. The other was A Double Life, in which she played the waitress who got strangled. She is no longer regarded as just another cute platinum blonde: she has graduated into the actress category. Her bosses speak hopefully of "an amalgam of Harlow and Lombard," and are billing her as "the blonde bombshell." If she is not as bold as Harlow nor as brittle as Lombard, she is frequently as bouncy as Betty Hutton and as breezy as Grable. Even in repose, she is still a nifty blonde (5 ft. 4 in.) with bright, blue...
...first half, the Yardlings never lost the lead again in spite of the Cross' aggressive defense under the basket. The lineup: G F T Smith, rf 5 5 15 Pankey, lf 3 1 7 McCormick, rf 1 0 2 Wegner, rg 2 1 5 Gabler, lg 3 2 8 Lombard 1 0 2 Francis 1 0 2 Stiles 5 5 15 Skinner 0 0 0 Brady...