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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last fall it would have been a dream team. For his College All-Star squad, Notre Dame's Coach Frank Leahy had lined up such 1947 gridiron greats as Michigan's Bob Chappuis, Notre Dame's Johnny Lujack and Mississippi's Chuck Conerly. In Chicago last week, before a crowd of 101,220, the collegians (most of whom would shortly be pros) kicked off against the Chicago Cardinals, 1947 pro champions of the National Football League...
...Cardinals, led by Missouri's Paul Christman and Georgia's Charlie Trippi, were out to justify their paychecks (the collegians have won the last two games). From a T-formation, the Cardinals marched 80 yards to the game's first touchdown, stopped the only All-Star bid on the one-yard line, scored the most one-sided victory in the 15-year series...
...When I have a song to sing," says Betty Grable, by way of explaining her success as a movie star, "I feel good singing it. I don't think, 'Gee! I'm the greatest singer.' " Neither does Miss Grable think, gee! she is a great actress: "I just say and do the things I do every day of my life. Gosh, it could be me up there on the screen...
Vaudeville, long since pronounced dead, had never looked more alive. Last week, on the boards of its old stronghold, Manhattan's Palace Theater (which surrendered to the movies in 1932), vaudeville was the star at the opening of the newest U.S. television station, American Broadcasting Co.'s WJZ-TV. The first show, from 7 o'clock until nearly midnight, featured all of vaudeville's tried & true turns: a dog act, a comedy team of acrobats, tap and ballroom dancers, comedians, songbirds, straight men. Gus Van (of venerable Van & Schenck) did a tear-jerking ballad about...
Said a New York buyer: "Wonderful for a queen or a movie star who wants to stand at the head of the stairs and be photographed, but quite useless to any woman who wants to do anything." Dior admitted that he expected to make very little on these styles (at a top price of around $1,000 each). But he had other plans...