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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this speech, she made fewer movements than a Madonna, but at other times she did things that no American-trained actress could possibly do and get away with--the mercurial changes of mood, the intense, doc-like stare at the actor speaking, certain extravagant gestures about the face--to name a few. I shouldn't care to see a stage filled with Luise Rainers, all going at once; it would be overwhelming. But the one we have with us now is most welcome and, I repeat, nothing less than captivating...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 10/21/1949 | See Source »

There was a large fire under the stadium stands yesterday (the grounds-keepers were cleaning it up for the Dartmouth game this Saturday) and a smaller one in the adjacent Soldiers Field practice enclosure (the football team was preparing for name...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Moffie Takes Part in Short varsity Scrimmage | 10/19/1949 | See Source »

Last week the show got a change in name: this season it will be NBC Theater. Explained NBC's press department: "We thought the word 'university' was scaring listeners away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Alias | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Born. To Benson Ford, 30, vice president of the Ford Motor Co., head of the Lincoln-Mercury Division, and Edith Mc-Naughton Ford, 29, daughter of a onetime Cadillac Motor Car official: their first child, a son; in Detroit. Name: Benson Jr. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 17, 1949 | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Born. To William Franklin ("Billy") Talbert, 31, fourth-ranking U.S. National Amateur tennis player and Davis Cupper, and second wife Nancy Pike Talbert, 26: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: William Pike. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 17, 1949 | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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