Word: mc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Informed that the Harvard Lampoon's editors had called her the least desirable companion on a desert island, tiny, yellow-haired Cinemactress Miriam Hopkins shrugged the shoulders Illustrator Mc Clelland Barclay once called ideal, retorted: "The Lampoon editors are absolutely right. . . . However, in some quiet little restaurant I really...
Died. Police Inspector Matthew J. Mc-Grath, 64, massive, Tipperary-born New York City cop who competed for the U. S. in four Olympics (1908-12-20-24), set an American record in 1911 for the 56-pound weight (40 ft., 6⅜ in.) that still stands; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
...long ago as last July, British soldiers & sailors raided Saint-Malo in broad daylight (TIME, July 8). AP's William Mc-Gaffin, arriving in New York from London last week, told of at least nine sorties into German-held France by British volunteer motorcyclists. Slipping across the Channel at night, in little trawlers and fishing smacks, they landed at deserted sectors of the French coast, rattled off inland in groups of 50. One raid, detailed to harass the German Army of Occupation, capture prisoners and gather information, went as far as Amiens...
...requested. Summoned from an old folks' home, Parson William S. ("Doc") Waddell, an ex-circus man, stood next to Dode's favorite sunflower (see cut), praised the dead, and exhorted the company to heed Dode's sign, laugh and talk. The three-piece orchestra blared Mc-Cloud's Reel, Happy Days are Here Again and, with audience joining, The Man on the Flying Trapeze. A strolling "prompter" was there to remind those who might weep. None did. Old Dode Fisk's last show...
...Lady Who Came To Stay (by Kenneth White, based on a novel by R. E. Spencer, produced by Guthrie Mc-Clintic) relates the dreadful events in "the upstairs sitting room of the Garvis home," a ponderous, gloomy Victorian chamber. Here three weird maiden sisters -one of them an unspeakable witch in a bathrobe-live in apparently acute sex frustration with their widowed, musical sister-in-law and her daughter. Finally the last of the weirds, afraid of becoming more so, decides to burn the house down...