Word: xavier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After school and college (St. Francis Xavier's, New York Law School) he began haunting Tin Pan Alley. He scribbled song lyrics for years. He was 28 years old before his Uncle James Roon marched him down to a Tammany boss, Charles W. ("Cash & Carry") Culkin, and got him elected to the State Assembly...
Antigonish* is a tidy little Nova Scotian town (pop. 2,200) with a picturesque name and a unique university: St. Francis Xavier. To St. F.X., as Bluenoses call it, educators come from all over the world. Last week Jesuit Father Ralph O'Neill, of Philadelphia, arrived. Like the others, he had come to study the Antigonish Movement, to see how adult and cooperative education had bettered the lot of Maritime fishermen and farmers. He wanted to do similar work among the Filipinos...
First, take a top, sure-fire star (Van Johnson). Add a pretty girl who can sing (Pat Kirkwood). Throw in a skilled comic (Keenan Wynn) and a couple of "name" orchestras (Guy Lombardo and Xavier Cugat). Never mind the plot. Van Johnson, looking winsome for the better part of two hours, is all the romance his bobby-sox worshipers really want. Wynn can handle the laughs...
Divorced. (Francis) Xavier Cugat, 46, Spanish-born bandleader who made the U.S. rumba-constious; by Carmen Castillo Cugat, 40, aunt of Actress Margo; after 17 years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...
...romance with the British ambassador's young son (Roddy McDowall) and her schoolgirl crush on celebrated Pianist Jose Iturbi ( played by Jose Iturbi). Between times there are songs by Jane, songs by Ilona Massey (father Pidgeon's romantic interest), piano selections by Iturbi and rumbas led by Xavier Cugat (played by Xavier Cugat...