Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...separate the facts from the legends about Tallulah proved in many instances to be virtually impossible, although Bernstein and Miss Sulzberger interviewed dozens of producers, stage managers, actors, writers, etc., and TIME correspondents throughout the U.S. and Europe talked to scores of her friends, enemies, and theatrical associates. It became quite clear that her friends regard Tallulah as an institution. They were frank, fair and helpful, and they did their best to augment the Bankhead legend. For example, her sister Eugenia, in discussing Tallulah's disputed age, is said to have said: "Every time Tallulah takes off a year...
...Miss Virginia D. Mussi of Woonsocket, R.I. sat down and wrote a letter to the Literary Guild...
...After a steady diet of this type of novel, I find the very mention of 'historical romance' leaves me cold and uninterested. I believe that even a good thing can be overdone." Did the million and more members of the Literary Guild feel the way Miss Mussi did? A year ago, when guild editors polled their members, 75% said they were eager for most costume-built novels. Now, the Guild confessed nervously, a good many members seem to be agreeing with Miss Mussi...
...year-old princess from the death of her young half-brother Edward VI to the marriage of her half-sister Mary, the book, is the second in a series on the redheaded Tudor (the first, Young Bess, was a 1945 bestseller), which promises to continue as long as Miss Irwin and her readers can stand it. Meaning to be more or less true to history, it manages only to be undistinguished either as scholarship or fiction...
Immediately after being identified by Dorothy Drohan and Betty Lowenstein, Gallagher attempted to dive through a steel-barred window of the second floor of the police station and was subdued only after a ten-minute struggle. Miss Lowenstein and Miss Drohan claimed that he had assaulted them last Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively...