Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boops, No Baby Talk. Jo Stafford's style is also typical of popular singing, 1946 model. The days of Helen Kane's boop-boop-a-doop, Helen Morgan's teary-voiced moaning or Bonnie Baker's baby talk are past. The style,now-practiced also by Margaret Whiting and Peggy Lee -is to sing straight, and let the band do the fancy work. Her detractors say Jo Stafford sings like a pitch pipe...
...largest in her 200 years; 10,000 alumni from 52 classes were singing Going Back to Nassau Hall. Tired businessmen, bankers, lawyers and bond salesmen joyfully shucked off their Brooks Brothers' pinstripes and climbed into silly Mardi Gras costumes for a lost weekend. For four days Mayor Minot Morgan Jr., '35 and the police of little Princeton borough (pop. 7,719) were as busy as if the Legion had come to town...
Stormy Waters (MGM International), a French-made film with English titles, stars Jean Gabin and Michele Morgan, two talented French players who have long since attracted the admiring attention of Hollywood. Completed in 1940 just before the fall of France, the negative of this picture was spirited away to Bordeaux and kept hidden during the occupation...
...Remorques (published in the U.S. as Salvage-TIME, Jan. n, 1937), is lacking in what the U.S. trade likes to call "big story values." Nothing much happens. Tugboat Captain Gabin, married for ten years to a nice, affectionate little blonde, suddenly finds that he's mad about Mile. Morgan. Except for a few convincing details, that's practically the whole plot...
...Morgan & Co. & First National Bank of N.Y.; Kuhn-Loeb & Co.; Rockefeller, Mellon and Du Pont families...