Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robinson as a vaudeville "mentalist" who finds, to his embarrassment, that his clairvoyant gift is genuine. He feels so helplessly responsible for the catastrophes he foresees that he cannot bear to cash in on his remarkable powers. He disappears into the depths of Los Angeles, leaving his fiancee (Virginia Bruce) to marry his partner (Jerome Cowan). Just as he could predict, Virginia dies in childbirth and Jerome makes money hand over fist...
...this is told in flashback; now the seer's alarm is focused on Virginia's grown-up daughter (Gail Russell). He becomes entangled in a whole chain of symbolic predictions about her: a crushed flower, shaken windows, violent death in starlight at 11 sharp, at the feet of a lion. Gail's scientific sweetheart (John Lund), Detective Shawn (William Demarest) and various shifty-looking businessmen who might profit by Gail's death, all act as if Robinson were crazy or criminal. Everybody tries to keep him away from the menaced young woman he is trying...
...left the University of Virginia in disgrace after Allan refused to pay his school bills and gambling debts of reportedly $2,500. He published his first poems, joined the Army under an assumed name, served two years, and in 1830 was appointed to West Point. Much older than his fellow cadets, and a hardened veteran, he spent seven months at the Point, then engineered his own court-martial and dismissal (for trivial offenses...
Tradition has it that he was unpopular with the other cadets, though they raised by subscription enough money to publish a book of his poems after he left. At 27, Poe was a moderately successful magazine editor in Baltimore, married to his 13-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm...
Princeton's Tiger has been burning bright these past few weeks. After their dismal first half season the Tigers suddenly came to life two Saturdays ago, taking a 16-14 thriller from Columbia. They routed Virginia 55-14 last week and looked more and more like the 1947 Big Three champions who just one year ago trampled Harvard into the Stadium...