Word: marilyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inviting one, two or three Harvard men to a dance is nothing compared to the mass dating done by Marilyn Whisman, pretty blond Radcliffe Freshman, who in the last two days has asked a sum total of 300 upperclassmen to the Eliot House Fall Dance...
...Marilyn's only remark was. "It's been fun, but I would have liked to hear some of the answers." Her only kick against Harvard men was that she "hates to have them say Wellesley girls are popular and cute, and Radcliffe girls such students drips. They're not all, you know," she added with a wink...
Sunny (RKO Radio) came to Broadway in the dreamboat days of 1925. She was luminous Marilyn Miller, star of an English circus, and she danced and sang her musicomedy way into the arms of an ex-doughboy baritone and the hearts of Manhattan theatergoers. Of no small help to her was the catchy score by Jerome Kern, Victor Herbert's successor and equal, and the lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II. One of their tunes moved the great Critic Percy Hammond to observe: "One song entitled Who? was attractive enough to indicate that ere the snow falls...
...Music, then playing at Manhattan's Pennsylvania Hotel, picked Who? and made a sensational arrangement of it. Victor transferred the arrangement to a disc, and soon the exciting, eminently singable melody was the U.S.'s hit tune. Today it is a popular "classic" that has outlived both Marilyn Miller and Percy Hammond...
...Elaine Robins, LazellDonald Harting Ann Rice, MiltonWilliam L. Hewes Mary Louise Shoemaker, Connecticut CollegeThomas C. Holyoke Mary Faunce, Jamaica PlainHarry L. Hosford, Jr. Bobsie Deming, The Day SchoolMarshall Hughes Ann Carpenter, Sarah LawrenceGerald A. Kerrigan Margaret Markham, WellesleyThomas Kuhn Peggy Masback, VassarEmil W. Lohman Betty Croasy, WheatonSamuel C. Leland Marilyn Peck, WheelerGuy S. Lowis Margie Wood, RadcliffeJames Logan, Jr. Margaret Clayberger, Colby Junior CollegeFrank G. Lynn, Jr. Peg Wells, Vesper GeorgeGeorge W. Mallory Patricia Cavanagh, WellesleyAustin B. Mason, Jr. Lansdale Daley, WinsorDavid R. Matlack Phyllis Palson, RadcliffeSingerly C. McCartney Alice Lynch, WheatonJ. Robert Moskin Hepzibah McWeebles, Dunkling-on-CharlesWilliam...