Word: romanticized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. Richard Arlen (real name: Richard Mattimore), 45, longtime Hollywood romantic lead, still a two-fisted hero in B pictures (Minesweeper); by Jobyna Ralston, 40, onetime Harold Lloyd leading lady and innocent-eyed silent cinemactress; after 18 years of marriage; one son; in Los Angeles. The grounds: desertion (for seven...
"Nothing Secret." The fact is that G. E. R. Gedye-having a wonderfully exciting time behind a cold, impassive exterior-had spent World War II in the Middle East "collecting confidential information," ostensibly for the British Ministry of Information. It had been better than his World War I service as...
Like all Trollope's best novels, Popenjoy exists both in and between the lines; like the age in which it was written, there is a smooth, romantic surface on which the most innocent girl may skate without danger, and, just below, the murky waters of worldliness.
Although he has never quite lived down his four-day jumping the gun on World War I's armistice, and has sometimes looked funny trying to scoop his local reporters on fires and auto accidents, Roy Howard has scored high with such stories as his interviews with Russia'...
At first, despite his good looks, wit and charm, it seemed that there would be no prize for young Fitzgerald. His girl broke their engagement because he had no money. At 21, he felt passé-"God! How I miss my youth!" he wrote to his friend Bishop. Then, between...