Word: newspaperwoman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing is partly delightful because Playwright Chase (a former Denver newspaperwoman whom Dorothy Parker once called "the greatest undiscovered wit in the country") has written some immensely funny lines, and in Elwood has created a very special character-droll, daffy, warmhearted, touching. It is also partly delightful because Elwood, who on a stage could easily become incredible or dismaying, is played to perfection by veteran Vaudevillian Frank Fay (as is Elwood's harassed sister by Josephine Hull). Fay not only makes Elwood a fine fellow when he is riding high; he makes him an even finer one when...
High spot of the film is the result of a party at which a U.S. newspaperwoman suggests that to amuse the guests Taro should have his men bayonet a baby or two. Insulted, Taro picks a quarrel with his old U.S. friend O'Hara. But because Taro's father is now Minister of Propaganda, the two men are not allowed to fight. Instead they choose deputies to fight for them. O'Hara's lean boxer is Lefty (Robert Ryan). Taro's fighter is a King Konglike jujitsu expert (Mike Mazurki). Their boxer-wrestler battle symbolizes...
...civic nostrils of this ex-newspaperwoman widened when recently she began to hear from such friends as U.S. Surgeon General Thomas Parran about appalling housing and sanitation conditions and increases in venereal disease and delinquency in war-plant areas and military towns. Mrs. Meyer began to sniff printer's ink again...
Married. Jerome Weidman, 29, novelist (I Can Get It for You Wholesale), short story writer (The Horse That Could Whistle "Dixie"), OWI pamphleteer; and Peggy Wright, 29, New York newspaperwoman; in Manhattan...
First thing Prexy Brandt did was to liquidate some ivy-covered traditions. His wife, an ex-newspaperwoman herself, cut out the reception line at the "White House" (home of Oklahoma's presidents). Joe invited groups of honor students to join him in the "White House" game room, where they ate wieners and hashed over the state of the world. He strode around the campus hatless and with a pipe in his mouth, worked in his shirtsleeves, installed a typewriter at his desk on which to bat out ideas. Undergraduates soon began to cry "Hello, Joe" when they passed...