Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...understood that Leo had been frustrated almost to distraction in his attempts to marry Movie Star Laraine Day. First, he had to wait for the California courts to grant her a divorce from her first husband (who had as good as called Leo a snake in the grass). When Miss Day's interlocutory decree came through last week, it was with the usual California stipulation that she would have to wait a year before remarrying...
Nobody in Flatbush blamed Leo and Laraine for flying to Juarez, Mexico, to get her a second divorce with no strings attached, or for driving back to El Paso to be married. But Los Angeles' Superior Judge George A. Dockweiler, who had granted Miss Day's first divorce plea, had a big objection. Together, the judge and the Durochers fought through the jungle of U.S. divorce laws...
...Juliette, and Stokowski chose her to sing the mezzo-soprano solo in the U.S. premiere of Prokofiev's cantata, Alexander Nevsky. Says Jennie: "All of a sudden everything came to me." After her Town Hall debut in 1943, the New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson wrote: "Miss Tourel's conquest . . . was . . . without any local parallel since Kirsten Flagstad's debut at the Metropolitan Opera House some nine seasons...
...Quitman County, Miss., where the rich black earth grows tall corn and bumper crops, there lives a Brobdingnagian boy. He stands 7 ft. 7 in his socks, sleeps in a 9-ft. bed, and picks as much as 300 pounds of cotton a day. When he isn't farming, 19-year-old Max Edward Palmer, wearing a little toothbrush mustache, is a freshman at Walnut Consolidated High and plays forward on the basketball team. Last week, he scored all of Walnut's 24 points in the first half, against bewildered Friars Point High. Earlier in the week...
...sunshine state delegation, including Raymond Massey, whose son is registered here, "fell in love with Harvard's buildings and quaint atmosphere" during its tour, according to Boston Globe columnist Marjorie Adams. Whether University Hall will fall in love with this venture is still an open question, as Miss Howe's book purports to be the inside story of faculty social life. David M. Little '18, Secretary of the University, says that the first move is up to Hollywood...