Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Inspecting the East for the first time, Cinemoppet Shirley Temple, 9, in a blue shirred frock and red hair-ribbon called on President Roosevelt squired by her father & mother, Mr. & Mrs. George Temple. The conversation ran on lamb chops, a tooth Miss Temple had lately lost, a salmon she had caught in Vancouver. Leaving the White House she exhibited her autograph book, which she considered "a very important book now." Inscribed across one whole page was: "To Shirley, from her old friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...unnecessary chances, the company assigned as her director Henry Koster, who in the first two Durbin pictures managed to emphasize the star's girlish naivete without letting it get completely out of hand. Result is a pleasingly preposterous little fable which, while more sophisticated than any of Miss Durbin's contributions, rivals them in its fresh and energetic charm...
...MOON LOOKS DOWN AND LAUGHS (Billie Halliday; Vocalion). Another capable dusky diseuse, a little sultrier than Miss Fitzgerald (see above...
...world's youngest minister. Ordained last year by the International Ministerial Federation (TIME, Aug. 2), he has preached all over the U. S., drawing 15,000 to a revival in Boston. But he had never solemnized a wedding. He practiced marrying his father and mother, finally got Miss Brinkman and Mr. Hoffman as his first clients. Last week the Hoffmans honeymooned confident that they were legally married, for, as Mrs. Hoffman admitted to vigilant newshawks a week after the ceremony, they had been married by a grownup minister in 1936, went to the altar a second time to give...
...white-goateed Statistician Roger Ward Babson last week rudely suggested that famed Helen Keller be elected to succeed him as moderator of the general council of the Congregational and Christian Churches. Shocked bigwigs of the church council, which was holding its biennial convention in Beloit, Wis., hastily apologized to Miss Keller for "the public use which has been made by Mr. Babson of the name of Miss Helen Keller in a most unkind and undignified manner...