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Word: nelsons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...portrays a shifty Lady in Lights who gurgles "darling" to almost everyone but her dull-witted Wall Street husband, obviously another pet peeve of Hart's. For only two major characters does the Hart show tenderness. One is the playwright in the plot, played earnestly and well by Barry Nelson. The other is the actress' mother (Phyliss Povah), slandered often, but always ready to play Gin with the play's angel...

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: Light Up The Sky | 10/14/1948 | See Source »

Undergraduates who want to forget all about Saturday afternoon and hearken back to the previous week will have their chance at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Main Common Room of the Union, where complete movies of the Columbia game will be shown. Backfield Coach Davy Nelson will supply running commentary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union Will Show Columbia Movies | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...little Stinson on the reach south from Anchorage was a confident pilot with 365 hours logged. Taking her 11-year-old son to Washington, D.C. to school, Frances Lintner, 38, had set out to follow the Alaska Highway to Edmonton. Skittering along under low clouds just short of Fort Nelson, she mistook a logging road for the highway, crashed into 4,000-ft. Steamboat Mountain. She was killed. Desperately injured and pinned half upside down in the wreckage, Michael Lintner somehow lived through 40 hours until rescuers reached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Off the Highway | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Snakes & Fiats. The U.S. press has broken free from some of the outdated taboos and cliches that still keep news-writing stilting along behind the racy spoken word. But many still survive. The late, great Editor William Rockhill Nelson barred the word snake from his Kansas City Star because he thought readers couldn't take it at the breakfast table. Colonel Bertie McCormick has let some of his simplified-spelling decrees lapse (foto-graf has been compromised into photo-graf), but his Chicago Tribune still uses monolog, tho, frate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cannibalized | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...anybody wants to find Art Valpey, Davey Nelson, Butch Jordan or thirty-six stalwart young men today, he'll have to put in a call to Watkins Glen, N.Y. This quaint little hamlet is where the Dunean Hines, of the H.A.A. has ledged the varsity football team for the Cornell weekend...

Author: By Don Carswell, | Title: Football Squad Arrives at Cornell | 10/8/1948 | See Source »

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