Word: vivian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grandview, Mo. airport to meet him were his mother, who had been in bed with a cold, his brother, Vivian, and his sister, Mary Jane Truman. Visitors were banned. After a night in Kansas City's Muehlebach Hotel, the presidential party drove some 50 miles to 97-year-old William Jewell College at Liberty...
Into Berlin's press camp breezed a pretty young ex-WAC introduced as Vivian Cox, an "expert" attached to the Military Directorate. Sitting on a desk and dangling her long, nylon-clad legs, Miss Cox answered indignant newsmen's questions in a pleasant Southern drawl. How would "militaristic" be defined, asked one reporter. Replied Miss Cox: "It's the way the Germans have of waging war." How would "democratic" be defined? Said Miss Cox: "Everything American people think and call democratic." Was the order different in principle from Nazi book burnings? No, not in Miss...
...stubborn, powerful player, with the doglike retrieving instincts of Georgia's Bitsy Grant, he also had plenty of offensive equipment, a cannonball service, a good backhand, a devastating overhead. He swung his heavy (15¼ oz.) racket two-handed in Bromwich-Vivian McGrath style...
...Denver 2,000 irate Colorado schoolteachers marched straight up the Capitol steps to ask Governor John C. Vivian a question. Why did he plan to spend eight of the state's $10 million surplus on roads, none on schools? They had some statistics to hurl at him: over 300 of Colorado's schools failed to open this fall because of a teacher shortage. There was a shortage of teachers because-as one marcher put it: "On the western slope of Colorado, they're paying sheepherders $140 a month, schoolteachers...
...their daughter Margy (Jeanne Grain) go to the big State Fair. Farmer Frake's heart is set on winning the Grand Award with his titanic boar. Blue Boy. Mrs. Frake's hopes reside in her crock of heavily spiked mincemeat. Wayne meets and falls for a redhead (Vivian Blaine) who sings with Tommy Thomas' band, and Margy picks up with a Des Moines reporter (Dana Andrews...