Word: parker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mixer. In Chicago, after a ten-day hunt for Truck Driver Dumonte Ashley Parker and a missing truckload of 750 cases of gin, police finally found the truck, short 250 cases, and Parker tipsy in a nearby tavern, where he indignantly told them: "I drink whisky myself...
Broadway felt much the same way about her abilities. Critic Dorothy Parker helped brush Kate off the stage with the withering comment: "She ran the gamut of emotions from A to B.'' Producer Joseph Verner Reed thought she might be better at high hurdles than at acting. Playwright Benn Levy said flatly: "She looks a fright, her manner is objectionable, and she has no talent...
Familiar Look. On the other hand, he never bothered to read the attacks on him in the Madison (Wis.) Capital Times because its city editor "has refused to say whether he was one of the leading Communists in the county"-a charge McCarthy has made before. (City Editor Cedric Parker has repeatedly denied that he is a Communist...
...Kanin, and the comic capering of Old Hands Hepburn and Tracy. Aldo Ray is amusing as a dumb boxer with a foghorn voice. There is a pungent gallery of prognathous fictional sports characters, while such real sports personalities as Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Gussie Moran, Donald Budge, Alice Marble, Frank Parker and Betty Hicks show up in person...
Among the other recipients of the certificates will be Hall's brother, J. Parker Hall, treasurer of the University of Chicago. J. Parker Hall is a graduate of the Harvard Business School...