Word: older
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ripe-mouthed Hedy Lamarr found herself playing the understanding older woman. Back to his wife she sent 26-year-old Actor Mark Stevens (now appearing in I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now), and freely told the press just how it went. "He is very young," explained Matron Lamarr, 32, "and I told him I thought he and Mrs. Stevens should try to make a go of their marriage. ... I talked to Mrs. Stevens . . . she sounds like a lovely person...
...Older Faces. Bob Chappuis is by no means the oldest collegiate player around: Michigan also has 31-year-old Tackle Alvin Wistert, brother of two former All-Americas. And New York University has a halfback who is 33. At Mississippi, 23-year-old End Barney Poole, once an Army star, is playing his sixth year of varsity football, by grace of weird eligibility rules. At Iowa City, infants on the sidelines watch their fathers laboring through practice. Ten men on Iowa's squad are married...
...again the party of Jackson, Wilson, and Roosevelt. We need independents who will meet the varied legal requirements of the different states for a third party as a hedge against the complete sellout of the present Democratic leadership. We need new political raw material--new candidates for public office. Older men and women who have shied away from politics must step into the battle as candidates, if we are to improve Congress. Young Americans must be encouraged to make careers in public service. No thinking liberal ... can find two dozen members of the present Congress worthy of future support...
...settled down in the lobby when he could not pay in advance. When cops woke him, the Prince produced a passport as identification; but it was not his (he had borrowed it). He was briskly hauled off to the station house. Eventually delivered into the strong hands of an older brother, the student Prince had his pockets stuffed with extra socks, two pennies, and a $1.50 hunting knife, which he had taken along to protect himself from Wild West desperadoes...
...that would draw me into a theater. The best thing Maxwell Anderson ever wrote was Ingrid Bergman." Swore Play-Producer Harris: "I hope I never have to produce another. The fun is gone." He said that he was 90 (he is 47)-"as old as Shaw. But I feel older...