Word: crawford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean Sherman shares hostess duties tomorrow with Mrs. Ruth Crawford, Smith College director of admissions...
...heroine of the episode was Princess Margaret. Growing up, she was not as gentle as her gentle friend Barrie pictured her. She became a terror to "Crawfie" (Miss Marion Crawford), her governess. At ten, she shocked her graver sister by noting that her nursery footman was "frightfully handsome." At 14, Margaret was caught sampling the King's champagne. At a recent party, the King told her not to drink any more sherry. "If you don't let me have another glass," said Margaret promptly, "I won't launch your old ships for you." The King gave...
...Santa Monica, Calif., after nearly seven years of marriage, Cinemactress Jean Wallace, 25, who used to sing in nightclubs, sued Cinemactor Franchot Tone, 43, who used to be married to Joan Crawford, for divorce. But they planned to fly to Paris this month anyway to play opposite each other in a new movie...
...Brother Crawford was glad he didn't have to make a speech, for it would have been a deception. Brother Crawford was a man with a dark secret. In four weeks and 4,000 miles of travel through the South, nobody guessed that he was really Ray Sprigle, free, white and 61, and the shrewdest reporter on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's staff...
...Washington's Union Station, sun-browned Reporter Sprigle, alias Brother Crawford, climbed aboard a Jim Crow coach with his guide, a Negro businessman (and the only Negro who was in on his identity). Only his guide, his family and his Post-Gazette editors knew what Sprigle was up to. "From then on," he wrote, "until I came up out of the South four weeks later, I was black, and in bondage-not quite slavery but not quite freedom, either. My rights of citizenship ran only as far as the nearest white man said they...