Word: sydney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Doris Keane, 63, star of the 1913 stage hit Romance, who married and divorced her leading man, Basil Sydney (said she: "Romance and marriage are two different things"); in Manhattan...
Australia: "There are finely equipped informative libraries in both Sydney and Melbourne. Each has three expert research librarians and five assistants. . . . Newspapers were greatly helped with background matter . . . given spot-news matter, bright topical articles, radiophotos...
...flash on United Press wires-JAPAN ACCEPTS-set off a few more celebrations around the world. In Sydney, Australians attacked firemen and wrecked their trucks when the authorities tried to water down a victory riot. In the two minutes before U.P. discovered that somebody had played a dirty trick (see PRESS) the U.S. and Canadian radio had gone overboard, and thousands were roaring in the streets...
...onetime driver of the crack Sydney-Melbourne express became Prime Minister of Australia last week. By a 3-to-1 vote, Joseph Benedict ("Chif") Chifley was chosen by the Parliamentary Labor Party to succeed the late John Curtin...
Christmas In Connecticut (Warners), for all its rattle and redolence of mothballs, is thoroughly moth-eaten. The caprice involves Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, S. Z. Sakall and a couple of babies who, though too young to know any better, are going to have quite a time living it down. The predicament: Miss Stanwyck, a highly publicized writer of recipes for a woman's magazine, has been pretending to her avid public (and to her honest publisher, Mr. Greenstreet) that she is a Connecticut country housewife, mother and cook. When the publisher insists that she entertain...