Word: missourian
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...long film career as a supersleuth, Charlie was portrayed by six actors, none of them Chinese.* Best remembered are Warner Oland, a Swede, who appeared in 16 features, and Sidney Toler, a Missourian, who lumbered woodenly through 22 pictures portraying Charlie as the still life of the party. Made on B-picture budgets, the Chan films show their age with simple-minded mysteries solvable in the second reel by any post-Bond youngster of eight. They also rely heavily on antique comic relief as subtle as a pig bladder. Charlie's No. 1 and No. 2 sons incessantly glue...
Died. Jane Darwell, 86, veteran actress in more than 300 Hollywood films, a strong-featured Missourian who over the years played mother (to Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart), grandmother (to Shirley Temple, Fabian) and whatever other home-and-hearth character the plot demanded, most notably Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, which won her a 1940 Oscar, and the Bird Woman in Mary Pop pins; of a heart attack; in Woodland Hills, Calif...
...Trova's falling men on sale for $3.95 each, sold 8,000 in the past year), Trova is less concerned with the figures than with the sculptural environments in which he places them (see color). "You might say I am a student of Aristotle," explained the mustachioed Missourian in his suburban St. Louis studio last week. "Man has to deal with things around him. The environment is sometimes threatening, sometimes placid...
Died. John Vivian Truman, 79, Harry's younger brother, another outspoken, poker-playing Missourian, who in 1948 became district director of the Federal Housing Administration in western Missouri, refusing any higher position after Harry's election ("I have no danged reason to go to Washington"); after a long illness; in Grandview...
Another public art project, was put on view a fortnight ago with the dedication of a 32-ft.-long mural by Realistic Regionalist Thomas Hart Benton, 72, for the library of fellow-Missourian Harry S. Truman in Independence. Worked up from a three-dimensional clay model and a miniature painting, the mural is, says Benton, whose eyes are tiring, his last major project. The crowded historical pageant, called Independence and the Opening of the West, shows Indians, hunters trappers, French explorers, settlers and adventurers-the men, says Benton, who gradually "changed Independence from a quiet backwoods settlement to the gateway...