Word: flatbush
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Froman's first husband, Don Ross, and Rory Calhoun is cast as John Burns, the Lisbon Clipper copilot who rescued her from the Tagus River after the crash and later married her. As a sort of composite of all nurses, Thelma Ritter plays a hardbitten, bighearted girl from Flatbush. Red-haired Susan Hayward, in the leading role, con vincingly matches her on-screen lip move ments to brunette Jane Froman's warm, vivacious singing voice on the sound track...
...called from the bullpen in six of the seven games; by his own hand; in Atlanta, Ga. Depressed by his fall from big-league to semi-pro ball, by a messy paternity suit, a $6,759 tax lien and a reported heart ailment, the onetime "Fat Fireman of Flatbush" telephoned to his estranged wife, told her "I'm all dead inside," then, as she listened, shot and killed himself...
...Brooklyn, where fans had settled into a morose "wait till next year" mood, the Dodgers came to life. By last week's end, after winning twelve out of 15, they were only two games behind, and Flatbush was in a resurrection frenzy. When the Phillies moved into Ebbets Field for the last two games, the Dodgers took the first...
There was little of Flatbush left in the dark-eyed, glamour-bobbed brunette who called herself Yvette Madsen. Only a hint of Canarsie in her consonants, a touch of Gowanus in her vowels remained to mark her as plain Jane Noack, a kid born in Brooklyn 22 years ago. Yvette was glad enough to have left Jane behind...