Word: morgan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worry." And that is sound advice, as sound when Dean Smith first gives it to you as it will be on the day you be bilged. You'll get used to soft-boiled eggs, to Standard "Erl", to low passes and peanut wagons, to "arrears" of figures, Morgan 3, and Boston lasses; after all, it's only four months till the wife and the stripe...
Last fortnight two of the most combustible personalities in Cinema, airminded Multimillionaire Howard (The Outlaw) Hughes (TIME, Feb. 22, 1943) and gadget-brained Preston (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek) Sturges (TIME, Feb. 14), announced their cinemanschluss. A new studio was born. Hollywood braced itself for the sort of thing that happens when hydrogen and a match flame meet...
...Michele Morgan, saffron-haired Hollywood import from France, told a Manhattan reporter that Hollywood's wolves "should be beaten to death." She pushed the point that they were a talebearing species. "Some poor little girl comes to Hollywood. She's lonely. . . . The wolves call and call. . . . You have lunch . . . they'll seem so nice, courteous, and very correct. . . . Six months later the girl is supposed to be . . . the most horrible person in Hollywood. . . . They have an ego that has been frustrated...
Miracle of Morgan's Creek (William Demarest, Betty Hutton, Eddie Bracken; TIME...
...have commenced quite in a small way," said Daniel Macmillan when he and his brother Alexander began to publish books in 1843. "If the business should prosper. . . ." It did. And having become one of the world's greatest, richest publishing houses, Macmillan & Co. commissioned Macmillan Author Charles Morgan (The Fountain) to write a history of its first 100 years. Recently published in England (U.S. publication this spring), The House of Macmillan is an entertaining story of the book world's liveliest centenarian...