Word: monica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To James King Kern ("Kay") Kyser, 42, Tarheel bandleader, and Georgia Carroll Kyser, 28, ex-Powers model, Kyser vocalist: their second child, second daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Carroll Amanda. Weight...
Born. To James Roosevelt, 40, and Romelle Schneider Roosevelt, 32, his second wife: their first daughter, third child (he also has a son and daughter by first wife Betsey Gushing, now Mrs. John Hay Whitney); in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Anna Eleanor (after her paternal grandmother). Weight...
...Santa Monica, Calif., Bing Crosby, 43 and balding, entered a hospital for a checkup the day after U.S. movie exhibitors* voted him box-office champion of the year-as he had been voted the three previous years. Next-most-magnetic, reported the exhibitors, was blonde Betty Grable, who also sings. Third best crowd-puller: Ingrid Bergman, even though no new Bergman movie was released all year...
Khachaturian: Violin Concerto (Louis Kaufman, violinist, with the Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra, Jacques Rachmilovich conducting; Concert Hall Society, 8 sides). This concerto, a favorite in Soviet Russia, won its composer his first Stalin Prize (1940). It is full of furious fiddling, signifying nothing. Performance: good...
Died. Lieut. Commander Frank ("Spig") Wead, U.S.N. (ret.), 52, pioneer Navy flyer (he set five speed and endurance records in the '20s), Broadway playwright (Ceiling Zero), movie scenarist (The Citadel); of pneumonia and complications; in Santa Monica, Calif. Wead decided to become a writer when his flying was ended by a crippling accident in 1926. But he wangled his way back to active duty in 1942, served aboard Pacific carriers with his neck in a steel brace...