Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When officials asked her to play a semifinal match on a side court, Patricia had a fit of sulks. The more she thought about it, the madder she got. Said she: "I told the committee I would play only on the center court. I'm the defending champion and I don't see why I can't play on the center court . . ." Just to show them, Pat flounced out of the stadium. France's Mme. Nell Landry promptly claimed and got a victory by forfeit...
...hand and calling her "Champ." She planted a consolation kiss on Darrell's reluctant cheek. What would she do with the $500? Her mother thought she ought to save it for college. Said beaming Mrs. Chappelear: "I only finished high school. My husband almost finished college. I'm sure Jean will make...
Hollywood was still spending fancy money, but taking longer & longer about it. Harvey finally went to Universal-International in a record sale - a million dollars plus percentages; Born Yesterday to Columbia for a million flat; Annie Get Your Gun to M-G-M for $650,000. But only one of 1947-48's plays went for anything worth noting: Command Decision to M-G-M for a $100,000 down payment...
...from Shanghai "an experiment - in what not to do." He figures he was trapped into making it by Columbia's Harry Cohn, who lent him $60,000 to get him out of a hole, made him promise to make a picture to pay it back. "But I'm not bitter," says Welles...
...Paris schoolboy "fell convulsively sobbing into mamma's arms" and cried: "I'm not like other people . . . not like other people!" Andre Gide, at eleven, had found his career...