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Word: nell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scarlett O'Hara's creator, Atlantan Margaret Mitchell, made a gracious Old Confederate response to a compliment. British Cinemagnate J. Arthur Rank's wife, Nell, had said something nice about Gone With the Wind on a visit to Atlanta last summer; but Author Mitchell was away at the time. So now, at length, she made the reciprocal gesture. To Mrs. Rank she sent a note of thanks, and enclosed a souvenir $5 Confederate bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 3, 1947 | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

James F. O'Nell, of 97 Walk Hill St., Jamaica Plain, a graduate of Roxbury Latin School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scholarship Awards | 5/29/1947 | See Source »

...Gets Girl. This is the home of Arthur Rank, his wife, Nell, and one daughter, Ursula, 27. (The other daughter, Mrs. Fred Packard, lives in Hollywood.) "The Rank love story," sigh friends, "is one of the most beautiful ever told." The Ranks are, in fact, two exceedingly happy multimillionaires. They are inseparable. Nell, who has contributed her millions and her shrewd advice to her husband's moviemaking, accompanied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: King Arthur & Co. | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

After dinner, Rank buries himself in a pile of papers and a box of chocolates until 2 a.m. Nell keeps him company; she sits beside him and knits. "Hollywood has 30 years on us," he explains. "We must do three days' work in one to catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: King Arthur & Co. | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...Georgies", set to music under the title of "La Terra" by Gian-Francesco Malipiero; and the Genesis account of creation, entitled by its composer, Aaron Copland, "In the Beginning." All three were performed to a miraculous perfection by New York's Collegiate Chorale, under the direction of Robert Shaw. Nell Tangeman sang with all vocal beauty the extended and difficult solo passages of the Copland work. Mary Crowley accompanied the Malipiero piece on the organ, and a brass choir from the Boston Symphony Orchestra helped out in the Hindemith...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 5/3/1947 | See Source »

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