Word: starring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when a blackened figure in stage costume suddenly popped out of a nearby manhole and gasped a few frenzied words. Minutes later, City Press had the first flash on Howey's beat-'the great Iroquois Theater fire, in which about 600 died. Hildy Johnson, the star reporter of the Chicago Herald-Examiner and The Front Page, scored a string of courtroom beats as a City Press legman by holding a stethoscope to the paper-thin walls of Chicago jury rooms. He got the eavesdropped verdicts to his city desk before the foreman handed them to the judge. Playwright...
...baseball history is a cinch with the help of a moist pad concealed in the hollow of his pitcher's mitt. Every time his wood-repellent ball comes steaming across the plate, it takes a neat little hop over the advancing bat. In no time, Miland is the star pitcher in a heated World Series. Everything, in fact, is going fine until his roommate and catcher (Paul Douglas) starts using the precious solution as a hair tonic. This leads to some minor plot complications and further belaboring of the film's one gag, which has already been worn...
Fanny Blankers-Koen, blonde Dutch housewife who has four Olympic gold medals and two kids of her own, stepped off the plane in New York, sought out a track where she could work the kinks out of her legs (she ran an all-star field into the ground at Los Angeles later in the week), got an unexpected welcome on her first trip to the U.S. from a swarm of eager little helpers at the track...
When you first go on a quiz show, "you feel smart, impeccable, confident," declared Cartoonist Al Capp (Li'l Abner), describing the queasy sensations of a television guest star. But "after 15 minutes of being asked the simplest questions to which you cannot give the simplest answers [your fellow contestants] aren't your friends, they're your mortal enemies -exposing your ignorance, shaming you by their faultless haberdashery . . . and their air of slightly nauseated pity...
...Garden State Park, across the Delaware River from Philadelphia,' Palestinian and Olympia are expected to head the field of three-year-olds in the $50,000-added-Jersey Stakes. For Californians, Hollywood Park will feature the $25,000-added Will Rogers Handicap, in which Star Fiddle and Pedigree are entered. Boston, Wilmington, Detroit, Chicago, and scores of lesser U.S. tracks will also put their best equine feet forward this weekend?as will Toronto's Woodbine Park, where the best of the Canadian racing crop will run for the Sg-year-old, $10,000-and-50-guineas King's Plate (probable...