Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is a fine gaudy pageant called Once Upon a Time, in which Sinbad, Gulliver, Aladdin, Don Quixote, Rip van Winkle, Snow White, Hansel & Gretel walk, drive, or ride elephant-back to Cinderella's wedding. Then 52 girls in brilliant billowing pink, hanging by a wrist in midair, do a stylish cancan...
John Wildberg, prominent Broadway producer, will lecture on "Television: The Eighth Lively Art" at 4 o'clock today in Emerson Hall. The address is sponsored jointly by William B. Van Lennep, Curator of the Library Theater Collection, and the Harvard Dramatic Club...
...signing was a notable triumph for the moderation of Dutch Acting Governor General Hubertus van Mook and Indonesia's common-sensical Premier Sjahrir. "On Indonesia," said Sjahrir to his people, "we are lighting a small torch, the torch of humanity. Let us take care of it. Let us hope it will mark the beginning of lightness all over the world." Five days later he left for the Inter-Asian Conference at Delhi. At the Hague, two hours after the pact was signed, a newly convened Parliament promptly ratified it by a vote...
...began when Van Johnson came to town. Val, a copy girl being tried as a picture-caption writer, persuaded an elderly friend to pretend to be a Johnson fan. Then Val talked City Editor Clem Lane into doing a story on "Van's oldest admirer...
...youngsters are going to play than to win games down here." After almost five years in which big-league baseball had produced little new talent, the accent was on rookies. There was likely to be a dugout-full of new names-such as "Yogi" Berra, Bobby Brown, Johnny Van Cuyk, Ted Kluszewski and "Puddinhead" Jones-in the big leagues this year or next...