Word: raymonde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Paul Kelly. 57, longtime (since 1907) Broadway actor, who played opposite Helen Hayes in Penrod (1918). turned to Hollywood in 1926, was convicted of manslaughter (1927) after Actor Ray Raymond died when Kelly slugged him during a quarrel over Raymond's wife, Actress Dorothy Mackaye. Kelly married Actress Mackaye in 1931 (she died after a car crash in 1940) after serving 25 months in San Quentin, later returned to Broadway, won the Donaldson and Perry awards for Command Decision (1947-48), starred in The Country Girl (1950-51); of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...
Dreiser v. Proust. The new trainee is not allowed to write. He copies books of Lowney's choice-Joyce. Hemingway, Faulkner, Dos Passos and Raymond Chandler. Says she: "They copy the story from comma to comma, from cover to cover. It helps their typing and helps them forget themselves." No writer dares copy anything else. One disgruntled ex-trainee remembers being caught with a copy of Proust, which "Lowney snatched from me, ripped up and threw away. 'I didn't tell you to read that,' she shouted. 'Your God-damned style's too intellectual...
Home Run. In Antwerp, Belgium, surprised while looting a house, Burglar Raymond Raets fled, scrambled over a ninefoot wall, found himself inside the Antwerp prison...
...last year, economists doubt that they are rising fast enough to satisfy the demand for money. Other sources of investment funds are also falling behind, e.g., life insurance companies expect to increase their new assets by only $6 billion in 1956. As things stand, says New York University Economist Raymond Rodgers, rapidly expanding mortgage credit alone will sop up virtually all new savings accounts this year, plus two-thirds of all the new funds accumulated by life insurance companies...
...other two linemen show a similar lack of experience. The left tackle is an untried sophomore, Raymond Fischer, who did not start against Bowdoin. Weighing 200 lbs., he is fast and a good blocker. The right guard is 165-lb. Joe Asiaf, who saw some action as a sub last year...