Word: cinderella
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose produced, costumed and acted in Cinderella, a Christmas pantomime given "somewhere in England." Margaret Rose took the title role, Elizabeth played the Prince. One of their props from the royal attic: an old sedan chair of Queen Anne...
...Peaches" Browning, the tabloid Cinderella, now 31, got married for the third time last week. Her latest is Joseph S. Civelli, San Francisco department-store executive. Wealthy "Daddy" Browning married her in 1926 when she was 15, cut her out of his will before he died in 1934, but she got dower rights of $5,000 a year. She sang for a while without much success in burlesque, in 1934 married a Denver theater manager, divorced...
...unlikely starter until he beat King Cole, the East's leading candidate, in the Wood Memorial at Jamaica last week. Market Wise's owner, a Long Island businessman named Louis Tufano, took part of the $16.000 he won, hired a private car, shipped his Cinderella horse to Churchill Downs...
...injuries have retarded his progress all year. In 1939 he "arrived" in the Army game, but this year it took a bit longer. Now he is in good shape and ready for the effort of his career. At least, that is one way to look at Charley Sprayer's Cinderella-man acts in the last two games...
...Tulane, Coach Shaughnessy used to make slow-charging linemen jump by firing a peashooter at the seat of their pants. At Stanford, he has needed no peashooter. The Indians, delighted with waltz-time football, have carried out his strategies with metronomic precision, have turned out to be the Cinderella team of the year...