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Word: playe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happy." She was going to have a baby (her second, Bob's third) "next April or May." The studio took a deep breath ("She was very obliging," admitted a spokesman. "She called as soon as she was halfway sure"), and started looking around for someone else to play Lana's next scheduled role: Madame Bovary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 27, 1948 | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...Largo. A veteran recovers his self-respect fighting gangsters. Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson & others do fine work in John Huston's adaptation of a Maxwell Anderson play (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Sep. 27, 1948 | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...high-strung poodles. Apple-cheeked Charles Bell Porter was no newsman but an esthete, a collector of rare stamps and Chinese porcelains, a Ph.D. in criminology from the university at Edinburgh, his native city. He liked to shut himself up in his office with a basket of fruit and play symphony records. But he also had a good head for figures, and that made him immensely valuable to Eleanor Medill Patterson. He was her treasurer and confidant, and for 15 well-paid years his polished head and briefcase bulged with her undivulged secrets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Disinherited | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

Harvard's coaching staff will play this underdog angle to the hilt. No creampuff opener has been selected. When the Crimson goes against Columbia Saturday, Valpey's Michigan single-wing magic will be unveiled for the first time...

Author: By Steve Cady, | Title: Crimson is Still on Fundamentals As Columbia Opener Approaches | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

First of all, the entire Freshman backfield is gone. Carl Bottenfield, injured in the Dartmouth game last season, has quit football on the advice of his Tulsa physician; fullback John West and halfback John White are scholastically ineligible to play this term; and Jim Lowell has decided to devote full attention to his studies...

Author: By Steve Cady, | Title: Crimson is Still on Fundamentals As Columbia Opener Approaches | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

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