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Freshman Captain Bob Mello will have plenty of competition in the pole vault. Exeter has four men who can top 11 feet--Jerry Babb, Rhodes Hart, Charles Crawford, and co-Captain Jim Ladd. Mello should take first in this event, but the Crimson will be hard-pressed for second and third...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '53 Track Squad Faces Tough Foe At Exeter Today | 4/29/1950 | See Source »

...King's Men. Broderick Crawford as a ruthless backwoods politico who strongly suggests the late Huey Long (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Apr. 24, 1950 | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

Cinemactress Joan Crawford, 42, who started out as a Chicago nightclub dancer even before the days of the Charleston, struck a pose for what she figured might be her 8,000th piece of cheesecake art. It had long since become a routine with her, she explained: "I just pull in my tummy, throw out my chest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Personal Approach | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

...Damned Don't Cry (Warner), but Joan Crawford does, in this true-confession-type story of a woman's sinful progress from hard times to easy virtue. First, like many of her fans, she is a shiny-nosed household drudge, bored and burdened with a husband who doesn't understand her. Escaping rebelliously, she becomes a cynical tart with a burlesque strut. Finally, having double-crossed her way onto the lap of an underworld titan, she acquires all the graces of a society matron. Along the way, Joan proves the undoing of four tall, handsome men, including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 17, 1950 | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

...their roles as the grass-roots demagogue and his hard-bitten secretary in All the King's Men, Broderick Crawford won the Academy Award for the year's best male performance and radio's Mercedes McCambridge, playing her first screen part, took the Oscar for the best job by a supporting actress. The Academy voted the best-actress award (her second) to Olivia de Havilland for playing the jilted wallflower in The Heiress, and recognized a bald Dean Jagger's retread adjutant in Twelve O'Clock High as the best male supporting performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Oscars | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

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