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Word: raye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arntzen, Wendell Vaughn of Route 1. Blaine; Bellingham High, Bellingham, Casier, Lawrence Ray of 2148 8th Avenue, Seattle: Queen Aune High, Seattle. Desseau, Gene of 1702 South Lawrence Street, Pierce; Stadium High, Tacoma. Egashira, Elmer Takanori of 2822 18th Avenue South. Seattle: Edison Technical. Seattle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scholarship Lists Released | 6/21/1949 | See Source »

...Detroit's Plum Hollow, Pro Ray Maguire made history of a sort by sinking two holes in one in 36 holes of qualifying play, then failed to qualify...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Case of the Borrowed Putter | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

Some of the music by Americans, like Frederick Woltmann's Songs from a Chinese Lute and Bainbridge Crist's Oriental Nocturne, sounded fine but had little to do with America. But Robert Ward's Gershwinesque, midnight-blue Night Music and Ray Green's jiggy, jazzy, folk-flavored Three Pieces for a Concert were true Americana. Most impressive was Bales's own Episodes from a Lincoln Ballet, a dramatic descriptive work which carried Lincoln through his "Youth and Dreams," to "The Presidency" and "Fame Everlasting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Concert in East Garden Court | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...Manager Joe McCarthy of the Red Sox ever finds any pleasant dreams sandwiched in between his present nightmares, they must have a plot that runs along the lines of "It Happens Every Spring." As a chemistry professor who turns to pitching when he discovers a solution that repels wood, Ray Milland wins 38 ball games in the regular season for St. Louis, then goes on to win four more in the World Series. Every time a bat gets near one of the magic pitches, the ball hops up and over, into the catcher's mitt. The whole picture is just...

Author: By Edward C. Haley, | Title: It Happens Every Spring | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

Aside from the weird baseball chemistry, the movie's laughs come from the whimsical, confused Milland as he changes professions and from Paul Douglas, who plays Ray's catcher and room mate. Douglas, matching his stage performance in "Born Yesterday" and his other movie appearance in "A Letter to Three Wives," is the tobacco-chewing, hardheaded, soft-hearted, Ring Lardner ball player who wisecracks at the umpire during business hours and spends the rest of the day keeping his irascible pitcher in tow. One of the picture's funniest scenes comes when he uses some of the magic lotion...

Author: By Edward C. Haley, | Title: It Happens Every Spring | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

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