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Back in the mid-'30s a husky, big-nosed, pale-eyed Virginian named Horace Gates Brown moved his wife and three sons to California. It was, as they often say in Hollywood, Fate. This was not immediately apparent, however, for, as they also often say in Hollywood, the mills...
"Lahr & Mercedes." In the years after World War I-in which he served as a Navy enlisted man-all this paid off. He invented a noisy, red-nosed cop ("Go ahead and call the captain-he's drunker than I am") and hit big-time vaudeville in one jump...
Quick Change Artist. The baseball bit is just the warmup for Lahr's night's work. In Two on the Aisle he has the support of a new Broadway sensation: a glittering, full-blown beauty named Dolores Gray, whose presence, style and big, happy voice make the revue...
The one jarring note at the family reunion was supplied, as usual, by the Russians, who took advance counsel with no one. Swarthy, cob-nosed Andrei Gromyko led his 39-man crew off their two private Pullmans at the Oakland mole. They had come directly across the U.S. from Manhattan...
On the morning of Aug. 15 (as the Navy told about it last week), William Barton Bridgeman, Douglas Aircraft Co. test pilot, climbed into a B29, sat down in its crew's quarters as it took off from Edwards Air Force Base on Muroc Dry Lake, Calif. Under the...