Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Walter Van Stan, Jr. '47, 24, Camden, N. J., Dunster House, History, House athletics...
Nobody is surprised to find Keenan Wynn amiable and funny, Lucille Ball tough and funny, and Esther Williams in a bathing suit in "Easy to Wed." Nor is it a jolt when ahs and ohs and girlish sighs accompany the first appearance of Van Johnson and reoccur at unpredictable moments throughout. The big surprise is that the story itself, far from being a B plot dressed up in technicolor, abounds in first-rate humour and develops with steady interest to the madcap climax...
...Great Books set will include introductory essays by Hutchins, Mortimer Adler, Carl Van Doren, Stringfellow Barr, plus a cross-index of the world's great ideas and idea-men. An entire building on the Chicago campus is filled with ripe scholars and raw materials for this index. Publication date: 1948. For the first few years Britannica expects an annual sale of 5,000 sets...
...Fine Job." By now a Communist loudspeaker van had arrived. With astute awareness that the rioting would give the Government a solid peg to hang the Communists on, the loudspeaker pleaded in fatherly tone: "Comrades, you've done a fine job . . . but remember, your anger should be directed against the owners of this building, not the police. . . . Now, come along. ... Go home in an orderly, disciplined way, worthy of the dignity of the working man." Through the crowd went three or four Communists, saying soothingly: "Now steady, comrades, steady, keep your heads." Finally the demonstrators began to break...
Easy to Wed. Van Johnson, egged on by Lucille Ball, Esther Williams and Keenan Wynn, sings, dances and takes pratfalls (TIME, July...