Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...early years. In effect it resolves into a Don Ameche Cavaleade, the story of a brilliant but erratic director of the old silent days who bombasts his way through many years of happiness and stark tragedy, and in the end manages to get Alice Faye and some gray hairs. Miss Faye, surprisingly effective in a role with no lyrics, very little legs, and custard pies in the face, plays the part of a Broadway star who comes to Hollywood at the instigation of Ameche. Though she marries the wrong man first, he contrives to drive into a telegraph pole...
...presumed . . . "Escape," by Ethel Vance, is a sensitive and moving story of he Nazi regime and of its victims . . . "Christmas Holiday" is a worthy addition to the list of books which have made W. Somerset Maugham one of the most distinguished modern novelists in English . . . Augusta Tucker's "Miss Susie Slagle's" recounts the story of a student's boarding house in Baltimore . . . Stephen Vincent Benet's "Tales Before Midnight" again attest to his ability as a writer of the fantastic and disturbing short story. More intriguing stories in the manner of "Thirteen O'Clock...
...this year twelve are studying. Represented this year are the United Press, the Associated Press, New York Herald Tribune, Petersburg (Va.) Progress-Index, Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, United States News, Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, Baltimore Evening Sun, Bismarck (N. Dak.) Leader, and the Boston Herald, and the Delta Democrat-Times (Greenville, Miss.) ford, author; Walter Lippman...
Beginning his sixteenth season as coach of the court squad, Lon Jourdet, the only alumni coach in the league, will have a completely veteran team available if he wishes to use it. The Quakers will miss Payson Brickley, 1939 captain; Tony Mischo, runner-up for the league's individual scoring crown, and Bill Dignan and Chuck Diven, but they still have Ross Hahn and Bruce Pearce as forwards; Harian Gustafson, football captain, at center, and Captain Gerry Seeders and Bernie Schrieber at the guards. In fact that is the way Pennsylvania will line up, at least for its early games...
...Miss Gallup admitted it was the first poll she had ever directed. But said with a blush that if represented a cross section of the girls...