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...anyone in the legendary tradition of May Sutton or Helen Wills. But a Forest Hills gallery last week stood up and cheered with new hope for a sturdy, rosy-cheeked girl who will not turn 17 until next week. Second youngest women's national singles champion on record,* Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly clearly was a good notch above her tournament competition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Young Queen | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

...best women tennis players, to take the Wightman Cup for the 15th time in a row, six matches to one ; at the Longwood Cricket Club, Brookline, Mass. In the fourth and clinching match, Britain's Kay Tuckey was trounced, 6-1, 6-3, by 16-year-old Maureen Connolly of San Diego, the youngest U.S. Cup team member in history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

...Born. To Maureen O'Sullivan, 40, Irish-born cinemactress (Tarzan and. His Mate, Tarzan etc.), and John Farrow, 46, film director: their seventh child, fourth daughter, in Los Angeles. Name: Teresa Mary. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 30, 1951 | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

...best of The Rose Tattoo is effective theater. David Diamond's incidental music is pleasant, and Boris Aronson's set appealing. Maureen Stapleton gives Serafina a crude, harsh vitality. But too often the play itself is lush, garish, operatic, decadently primitive, a salt breeze in a swamp, a Banana Truck Named Desire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Feb. 12, 1951 | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...story may be a vacuum, but Ford's accountants know that it sucks in quick box-office receipts (see above), especially when John Wayne plays the leathery colonel and Maureen O'Hara is his estranged (but not for long) lady. Ford's thoroughgoing craftsmanship, especially in his cleanly planned battle sequences, often invigorates Rio Grande. But it no longer quite makes up for his shoddy taste in material, nor can it satisfy moviegoers who remember him as the director of The Informer and The Grapes of Wrath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 11, 1950 | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

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