Word: maria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prospect had Mexican Movie Actress Maria Felix biting her nails. She was afraid that in her new picture, Rio Escondido, a bit-player would steal the show. The bit-player: President Miguel Alemán, playing himself when he presents Maria Felix as a schoolma'am an award for her fight against illiteracy. For Alemán, who knew Hollywood well in pre-presidential days and who is now anxious to give Mexican movies a hand up, it would be a screen debut. Said famed Director "El Indio" Fernandez last week, readying camera, lights and greasepaint...
German-born Erich Maria (All Quiet) Remarque finally became a U.S. citizen after eight successful years in the country, declared he would now examine the regions with which he was unfamiliar-i.e., everywhere except Hollywood and Manhattan. New Citizen Remarque reported a new sensation: "You walk and look around in a different way ... it really means something to belong here...
...Stop a Bus. In Havana, Maria Ramirez Artiles stood impatiently in the rain waiting for a bus, furiously watched two flit right by. The third bus stopped-after a window was smashed and a passenger beaned by indignant Maria's well-aimed rock...
...number of news events that the network's crack news staff was unable to cover. Last week, CBS covered its embarrassment with a series called CBS Is There. This week, the network time-machined a broadcaster back to 1492 and the deck of Columbus' flagship, the Santa Maria. He reported...
Daly: "The gun! The gun! The signal . . . from the Pinta! [shouts of 'Tierra! Tierra!'] Land! Land! ... I see it, too. A white sand cliff gleaming! . . . Pandemonium has broken loose here on the deck of the Santa Maria. . . . I'm all choked up. ... I return you now to CBS in London...