Word: maureene
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...Hollywood, a studio movie set was swept for action as red-haired Maureen O'Hara, wigged to her knees, prepared to re-enact history's barest bareback ride in the title role of Lady Godiva of Coventry. After the set was cleared, all that remained were 14 film technicians (eleven of them women), no outsiders, not a single producer...
Thorne left behind two startlingly different impressions. His fiancée, Maureen Ragen, 18, a student in Westchester County's Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart (and granddaughter of Chicago's late racing-wire king, James Ragen*), sobbed: "He was great and good. He simply had no faults. He didn't drink. Why, he didn't even drink coffee, just milk." The old needle marks were from giving blood, she said, and the fresh ones were "a put-up job." Said a Fordham official: "Young Thorne was a fine athlete, a good student and deeply religious...
...County's Coroner Walter McCarron, a politician and trucker with no medical training, leaped happily into the case-and the headlines. Thorne had made one will leaving everything to his mother. But a second will, made nine days before his death, bequeathed most of the money to pretty Maureen Ragen and her mother, Mrs. Aleen Ragen. Day after day, Coroner McCarron called before the television newsreel cameras the weeping women who loved Thorne-and now seek his inheritance-to cast suspicion on each other...
Playing in a gusty wind that disturbed her usually impeccable game, Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly outlasted California's Louise Brough in the women's finals, 6-2, 7-5, and won the Wimbledon singles title for the third straight year...
Wight man Cup team of Maureen Connolly, Louise Brough and Doris Hart played lackluster tennis against a team of British youngsters, slipped and skidded over rain-drenched courts, but won all its matches and took home the tall silver trophy for the 18th consecutive year...