Word: myrna
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Myrna Ann Tubby, 3, a Choctaw papoose from the reservation at Philadelphia, Miss., was as slack as a rag doll when she was admitted to the Mississippi Medical Center at Jackson. She was completely paralyzed, she did not cry and probably could not have done so even if in pain...
...Blandings, Carey Grant spends most of his time looking dire, and he is an old hand at it. Few actors, probably, have gotten as many laughs out of standing in front of a mirror and trying to shave. Myrna Loy, as his wife, Muriel Blandings, and Melvyn Douglas, the old lawyer friend, are also old hands. Under such sure guidance, the movie grinds itself out at the Blandings bathroom mirror or in front of the Blandings building site...
This book starts with an engagingly simple idea: since British newspapers promote circulation by giving away prizes of automobiles, houses, radios and cash, why not offer readers something they can really get their teeth into? Why not, for instance, offer luscious Myrna Figg to the reader who can write the best love letter? Headed by a Machiavellian newspaperman, a group of literary zanies do just this. They take over an innocent weekly, The Slaughterhouse Informer, devoted to livestock prices, and stuff its dreary, beefy pages with scandalous matter. They feature Myrna Figg on the cover, over the bold caption: THIS...
...Myrna Figg remains the solidest circulation builder. It is all good, nonsensical fun and reaches a happy end when the richest man in the world, a sheik with an oil kingdom, writes the winning love letter. But was the sheik's letter really the best? Or were the editors' palms greased just a little with sheikly oil? Novelist Hyams minces no words in his satire on the British popular press. He says that in reaching their decision, the Informer's editors refused absolutely to let the sheik's wealth stand in the way of Myrna...
...Rains of Ranchlpur (20th Century-Fox), for instance, wades once more through The Rains Came, a story that is just as soggy today as it was in 1939. The main difference is that this time Lana Turner and not Myrna Loy is the girl who breasts the flood...