Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bowie would not say whether he will accept Miss Sheridan's invitation, but admitted that he would probably screen well. A curly-harried pleasant lad, Bowie is interested in crooning and has also dabbled in musical comedy...
...steady, pleasant, strongwilled, plodding, articulate. He lives simply, unconscious of money. Long ago he donated the gold from his teeth to China war funds. He still delivers his paycheck -unopened-to his 80-year-old mother. He denies his reputation for being able to drink like a Cossack, says he has been drunk only three times (once he drew a blank, once he dimly remembers he downed two quarts of whiskey on a train in Poland, once he got drunk to help survive a Chinese feast of 100 courses), and insists that he drinks only "to celebrate a past event...
...great one's friendly gesture, the lad wrote her to ask whether he could meet her when she visited Rochester on a forthcoming Metropolitan road tour. Gladly, she replied, would she see John backstage between the second and third acts. The date was kept and they had a pleasant little visit. The following year, when she sang in Rochester, they had another date...
Class of 1942: Alan J. Ansen, Woodmere, L. I., N. Y., Eugene S. Austin, Mt. Pleasant, Tenn.; Marvin G. Barrett, Des Moines, Iowa; J. Malcolm Barter, Beverly; Ralph B. Bennett Jr., The Dalles, Ore; Warren M. Cannon, Independence...
...last Darryl F., Zanuck has glorified a chapter of America's past without the services of Don Ameche, and the result is a surprisingly pleasant though simple tale. Richard Greene's broad shoulders take on the burdens of an inventor, and as Robert Fulton he covers the New York waterfront of 1807 with punches and an English accent until his "follyboat" is a success. Although he suffers the common fate of Hollywood history-heroes and looks about half the forty-two years he should have, Greene does manage to show enough gusto and sincerity to make his role fill...