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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arriving in Manhattan, Playwright-Actor Noel Coward appeared to be in a grave, no-nonsense mood befitting his years (50 this week). Undismayed that his last three plays have been failures in London, he told the New York Times: "I shall write new comedies, for I have a great wit...
Madam Ambassador Eugenie Anderson, 40, of Red Wing, Minn.-the first woman Ambassador in U.S. history-sailed from New York to take up her post in Copenhagen, Denmark. With her went Johanna, 15, Hans, 11, and Husband John, who was proud not only of his wife's big new...
Sir Laurence Olivier, arriving in New York to make his television debut, was saddened because many people in England had misinterpreted the role of Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire, currently being played in London by his wife, Vivien Leigh. The character is not a prostitute, Sir Laurence explained patiently...
The Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York discovered that there's nothing like an oldtimey masked ball to attract partygoers. Staging a masquerade in the Waldorf-Astoria grand ballroom for its Pension Fund, the Philharmonic lured in 1,200 masked dancers, twice the number that attended two previous open...
When Frank Waldrop, editor of the Washington Times-Herald, came home for dinner one evening last fortnight, his ten-year-old son Andrew had exciting news: "Harry Hopkins was a spy!" The boy had been listening to Fulton Lewis Jr.'s radio interview with ex-Major G. Racey Jordan...