Word: lone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actually seems to be helping, rather than hurting, her earning power. Reports Columnist Sidney Skolsky solemnly: "Ava worried. She lost weight. But now she has found that scandal can't hurt her." Her current picture, Show Boat, is breaking box-office records across the country. In Lone Star, Metro cast her opposite Clark Gable, still one of the greatest favors in its power to bestow, and it has two more important pictures lined up for her. Other studios are clamoring to borrow her services...
...into white and Negro units. ¶ The Navy has about 20,000 Negroes-3.3% of its strength; more than half of them are assigned to the Stewards' branch (cooks, messmen) in which there are only six whites; there are but 27 Negro officers in the Navy, including one lone Annapolis graduate.* ¶ The Air Force, which has the best record on abolishing segregation, has broken up its all-Negro fighter squadrons, but it still segregates troops at such big Southern fields as Alabama's Maxwell Air Force Base...
...Mario likes the grand gesture, whether he is in a temper tantrum or a mood of warmhearted generosity. When he learned that Louis B. Mayer, cofounder and chief of the M-G-M lot, seemed to be on his way out, Lanza remembered that Mayer had fought an almost lone battle to get The Great Caruso made. He telephoned Mayer to express concern and ask whether he could help the man long ranked as Hollywood's No. 1 executive. Mayer-as Lanza recalls the incident-wept tears of gratitude...
Thayer got its lone run on two walks and two errors, but in the same inning Stoughton pulled off a triple play which started with a line drive to the pitcher...
Just 24 hours after the first call from Golden Trout, Sara Sharr was put to bed in Lone Pine's hospital and given tetanus and penicillin shots. Last week, though her right eye was still closed, she was cheerful and well on the way to recovery...