Word: pal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gene Kelly, trying out a new dance routine at home, missed his footing, fell, broke his right ankle, had to bow out of Hollywood's Easter Parade. To help a pal, Fred Astaire, who very loudly removed his dancing shoes last year, happily bounded out of retirement into Kelly's role. Said bald Hoofer Fred about retirement: "I'll always talk about it, but I'll probably never...
Died. Gitz Rice, 56, oldtime vaudevillian, composer of World War I song hits Dear Old Pal of Mine and Mademoiselle from Armentieres ("adapted" from an old French folk tune); of chronic bronchitis; in Manhattan...
...When Kramer took a bow-unsmiling, grey-faced and relieved-he got a thin ripple of applause. When Parker bowed, the ovation lasted more than a minute. The new women's singles queen: blonde Louise Brough, who beat her pal Margaret Osborne 8-6, 4-6, 6-1. Then both of them had a good...
Mildred P. Sherman, Dean of Radcliffe College, succeeded in establishing her respectability to the nervous satisfaction of a housebreaker last week whom she caught crawling out a window of her Brattle home. "I was just bringing a drunk pal home, don't want to wake the wife," he started to explain to the irate Miss Sherman...
...disgusted. He meets the public so often now that he has to take a bath every two weeks-twice as often as he used to. His reward is a mere 25 biscuits a show-mouse-bait to a full-grown, well-to-do male collie like "Lassie" (real name: "Pal...