Word: make
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...romantics, Laurence Olivier (who resembles Ronald Colman and snarls like Clark Gable) and Valerie Hobson (who looks and loves like Loretta Young) pout and make up in proper Hollywood style. But the show-stealing star of Clouds over Europe is bland, slightly-potty, all-round Actor Ralph Richardson (Things to Come, The Divorce of Lady X, The Citadel...
Aged Hackwriter Gilbert Patten, who wrote the once-famed "Frank Merriwell" books, reminisced: "The stories were written in a Victorian age. ... If I did them today, I'd make the characters more natural. Frank used to say, 'You're a great guy.' Now I'd make him say, 'You're a damned fine...
...raise Spanish refugee relief funds, aphrodisiantic Stripper Louise ("Gypsy Rose Lee") Hovick auctioned off two autographed bestsellers: Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt's This Is My Story, Thomas Mann's Joseph in Egypt. To make them real collector's items she added her own autograph...
Most polls of the radio audience are concerned mainly with who is selling the most what to whom. Radio Guide's is different. For the last six years, Radio Guide has polled its weekly fan circulation and friends to find out which radio personalities make the deepest and most enduring impression on listeners. This year 750,000 ballots were clipped from the magazine between April 15 and May 31 and mailed to its offices in Chicago. Last week the poll was tabulated. The choices...
...friends last week were willing to bet that Jack Crocker, no snob, would get on well at snobbish Groton. One of his chief problems will be to satisfy old Groton boys, whose sons have always had first chance to be admitted to Groton, and still make it a representative institution. Already there are so many sons of old Groton boys (including 16 Roosevelts) that they form almost two-thirds of Groton's enrollment...