Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, before a House Labor subcommittee, broken-nosed Herbert K. Sorrell, whose A.F.L. Conference of Studio Unions has had Hollywood cinemakers in strike ferment for three years, denied over & over that he had ever been a Communist Party member. Shown a C.P. card signed "Herbert Stewart" (Sorrell's mother's name was Stewart), he cried "fake," but admitted that it looked like his handwriting. An expert swore that...
Last week, the rhymester, 47, wrote a suicide note leaving his worldly goods to his second wife. Then he jumped from his 12th-floor Manhattan studio. Don Wahn's last heartbroken lines appeared a day later...
Last week, burbling Cinemactress Billie Burke was called into the studio to pick a name out of a fishbowl. The name happened to belong to Mrs. Edgar Parrett, 56, of Shiprock, N. Mex. That was how Mrs. Parrett became "Queen for a Day" and the winner of a staggering $35,000 assortment of prizes, the biggest, of course, in radio history-at least for a few weeks...
Born rich (in 1832), Manet decided early on his lifework and never had to compromise. Art school, he complained, was "like entering a tomb," but he spent six years buried there, learning to paint studio nudes in various shades of tobacco juice. When he had all the fashionable tricks cold, Manet started traveling, copied masterpieces in Belgium, Holland, Germany and Italy. After such a training, he submitted his personal experiments to the Salon-Paris' high court...
Between shows and trips to the studio, Toni likes to skip rope, ride bicycles, and listen to the Lone Ranger. She is not much impressed by her singing and is cool when her father insists on playing her records for visitors ("I just like to sing. It sounds pretty to me, that's all"). At school, where she always gets As or Bs, no one else is much impressed either. Since she tends to syncopate even her school songs, her teachers don't ask her to sing solo. But Toni doesn't care. "School songs," says...