Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movie of and for the family. It has just about everything, including Technicolor, that a family movie should have: a devoted father (Dan Dailey) who can sing & dance, a doting mother (Anne Baxter) who can dance and act, and a sprightly moppet of a daughter (Shari Robinson) who, like most Hollywood prodigies, can do almost everything except the two-and-a-half somersault on a flying trapeze...
...been called for just one purpose - to answer, on behalf of other Negroes, Party-Liner Paul Robeson's assertion that the 15 million U.S. Negroes would never fight in a war against Soviet Russia. But, as many a big-league pitcher could have told the committee, Jack Roosevelt Robinson, organized baseball's first Negro and the National League's leading batter, was never a guy to bunt a fat pitch with the bases loaded. Testifying before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, Jackie Robinson quickly dismissed Robeson's statement as "silly." But there was something...
...pretend to be an expert on Communism or any other kind of a political 'ism'," said Second-Baseman Robinson. ". . . But you can put me down as an expert on being a colored American, with 30 years' experience at it. And ... I know that life in these United States can be mighty tough for people who are a little different from the majority - in their skin color, in the way they worship their God, in the way they spell their names...
Though Sugar Ray lacked some of the fire that once earned him the reputation of being, pound for pound, the best fighter in the business, he easily won the judges' decision. Said one veteran ringsider after it was over: "When Robinson defends his title, every professional prizefighter in the U.S. should pay his way in to learn...
Most spectators, including Princess Elizabeth, got their biggest chuckles from Rube Goldbergish efforts like W. Heath Robinson's Magnetic Method of Stretching Spaghetti (at the expense of Britain's face-lengthening austerity program) and H. M. Bateman's Tragedy at Wellington Barracks, a study in horror-struck faces as a butter-fingered guardsman on parade drops his rifle. It was dapper Australian-born Cartoonist Bateman who had started the whole thing in a speech to the Royal Society last February, declaring it was high time the British had a "National Academy of Humorous Art." Last week...