Word: sylvia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Married. Sylvia Gould, 31, great-granddaughter of Jay ("Robber Baron") Gould who piled up one of the first great U.S. fortunes as a Civil War speculator and railroad tycoon, daughter of a onetime Italian governess in the Gould family; and Lieut. Commander (U.S.N.) Ernst Hoefer Jr., 29, of Sheboygan, Wis.; she for the third time, he for the first; after a false start two months ago when she broke the engagement on grounds that he refused to sign away dower rights to her estate; in Seager...
...your work is to get in front of an audience that pays to see you. Then you know in a minute if you're bad." Among the players who have kept the audiences paying for Broadway revivals: Eve Arden, Barry Sullivan, Ruth Hussey, Guy Madison, Diana Lynn, Sylvia Sidney, Reginald Denny, Jane Cowl Ann Harding, Laraine Day, Martha Scott the late Dame May Whitty...
Other public figures were branded as Communist sympathizers. Among them were March's wife, Florence Eldridge, Boston University President Daniel L. Marsh, Radio Writer Norman Corwin and Cinema Stars Edward G. Robinson, Sylvia Sidney, Paul Muni, John Garfield and Melvyn Douglas, husband of California's Democratic Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas. Outraged and vehement denials and sardonic evasions flew from coast to coast...
...those of his 789 classmates. His mother, plump Mrs. Rosetta Brown, who had pressed pants to help him through high school, watched proudly from the galleries. Rear Admiral J. L. Holloway Jr., the Academy superintendent, greeted her at the June Week garden party. Brown and his Annapolis girl friend, Sylvia Hicks Johnson (see cut), an undertaker's secretary, danced together at the class farewell ball...
Honorable mention: Joan Dexter '52, Sally Flett '51, Rayna Klatskin '51, Sylvia Larrabee '49, Joan Projansky...