Word: rafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cinema Hard Guy George Raft, who had been getting the full treatment from Columnist Westbrook Pegler (who disapproved of Raft's associates and felt that Raft was just about as black as the movies painted him), suddenly had a little trouble with a 50-year-old attorney named Edward Raiden. Back before Christmas of last year, charged Raiden, he had been sent to Raft by 19-year-old Betty Doss to recover some finery which Raft had given her and then yanked back. While one of Raft's friends held him, the attorney complained, Raft gave...
Nocturne (RKO Radio), featuring George Raft as a deadpan detective, gets by in a superB way, but it will add no gloss to Producer Joan Harrison's shiny reputation (Phantom Lady, Uncle Harry...
...case of the dead composer looks like suicide, but Detective Raft knows better. First, his stubborn talk of murder gets him bounced from the Homicide Squad. Then his continued detecting, without pay, gets him shadowed by a sinister fat man, beaten up, involved with an enigmatic lady (Lynn Bari) and eventually hunted by the cops...
...Benedict Bogeaus-United Artists) is custom-tailored to the specialized film personalities of Sylvia Sydney (a rich Congresswoman) and George Raft (a political racketeer...
Married. Captain Louis Zamperini, 29, onetime University of Southern California track star, 1936 Olympic miler, wartime Army Air Corps bombardier who survived 47 days on a life raft and 27 torture-filled months in a Japanese prison camp (TIME, Sept. 17); and Cynthia Applewhite, 20, of Miami Beach, Fla.; in Los Angeles...