Word: nice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Singer Mary (My Heart Belongs to Daddy) Martin Halliday: a 7-lb., 13-oz. daughter, her second child; in Hollywood. Name: Heller. Said scandalized Weatherford, Tex. townsfolk: "It's not a very nice name for a girl to have...
...company (along with two others) had outbid the bankers on a $90,000,000 A.T. & T. issue (TIME, Oct. 6). "The trend toward concentrated investment holdings is of doubtful economic and social good," said he. Another reason: if the insurance companies ever have to unload, it will be nice to have some solvent investment bankers around to help the distribution...
Says she: "After all, a girl is-well, a girl. It's nice to be told you're successful at it." But she is volubly aware of the hard work that lies ahead of her, as an actress...
Fidgety Comic Robert Benchley, whose chief claim to charm is that he seems to be in a perpetual, ingratiating hangover, launches the picture. As a soft-shelled Broadway producer with an eye for nice little items named Sonya, he drives into Manhattan, sees the picture's title, cast and credits on a series of roadside billboards...
...tactless, "a sort of Italian Caroline Lamb." She horrified one gathering, wrote Byron, "by calling out to me 'mio Byron' in an audible key, during a dead silence. ..." Mary Shelley found Teresa "a nice, pretty girl" but "her legs, in fact, were far too short for the weight they carried...