Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Donald Marr Nelson, 59, plump, balding wartime WPBoss; and Australian-born Valerie Edna May Rowell, 31, former British actress; he for the fourth time, she for the second; in Manhattan...
...three-woman staff is suitably international : one is American; one is Hungarian by birth and Haitian by marriage; one is Swiss by birth, U.S. by citizenship, and married to an expatriate Russian. Mrs. Lea Cowles, the plump, attractive widow who directs the nursery school, was borrowed from the University of Alabama department of child development. Says she: "When some of the parents heard I was at Alabama, they thought I would turn out to be a race bigot...
...Howard Fuller, 34, plump president of the joke-haunted Fuller Brush Co., was also coming right along. To impersonate him in a Red Skelton comedy, The Fuller Brush Man, Columbia Pictures asked for-and got-A. Howard Fuller...
Warrior Ivins also had a gentle side. The one who knew it best was his plump, four-year-old grandson, Danny Ivins. Whenever Danny visited him, Ivins sent away his vicious watchdog (it had once snapped at Danny). He took Danny along on some of his politicking trips, always bragged about...
...with most thrillers, the picture suffers from vagueness. The characters are presented with motives that are so intangible and so multiple that none of them comes convincingly to life. But Montgomery is a likable performer and Newcomer Fred Clark is a gifted and vigorous one. Plump Thomas Gomez has a ripe old time character-acting. Ride the Pink Horse doesn't really jell as the unusual picture that it evidently set out to be, but it is an amusing melodrama, cross-lighted with intelligence and good intentions...