Word: shipp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early Life & Education: Born June 2, 1920, Dickson, Tenn., son of a druggist-turned-lawyer. Voluntarily tromped off at the age of eight to join the Methodist Church, preached his first sermon at 15. Specially tutored in public speaking by his aunt, Mrs. Dockie Shipp Weems, director of Shipp School of Expression. Married Lucille Christianson at 19, passed state bar examinations (with highest grade out of 276) a year before graduating from Vanderbilt University School...
...Hollywood press has been good to me," says Lana Turner. "They have always crucified me with a smile." In the December issue of Woman's Home Companion, Lana (telling it to Cameron Shipp) tries to set her life story straight. But the saga still seems almost as painful as crucifixion by the press...