Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...weeks ago Sherriff approached the Treasury, offered to write the Hollywood script for a nominal ?100, provided that the remaining ?9,900 went to the Society of Antiquaries for the excavation of some Roman ruins in Norfolk. Said Sherriff: "It is neither comforting nor does it make one proud to reflect that one is providing so many free sets of false teeth ... to the people of Britain ... I would gladly work for next to nothing if it would produce something for the nation I could feel I had a hand...
...headquarters for the fight was the tapestried salon of Madeleine Sylvain Bouchereau, Ph.D. (Sociology, Bryn Mawr), onetime UNRRA welfare officer in Germany and president of the Ligue. Sitting erect on a brocaded chair, Madame Alice Garoute, 75, widow of a Supreme Court justice, sounded the battle cry: "We must make parades, demonstrations! They can shoot down eight of us-but they can't shoot down 800!" She confided later: "I don't care a bit if they shoot me, but I really wouldn't like to go to prison-I detest sleeping in little rooms...
After a couple of weeks' silence, Cinemactress Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini (see CINEMA) were talking out loud again. In Hollywood, Actress Bergman's attorney announced that she would return to the U.S. to make "the fight of her life" for custody of her eleven-year-old daughter, Pia, by her marriage to Dr. Peter Lindstrom. Asserting that she was a "fit and proper" mother, she filed suit in Los Angeles for an accounting of all her property as well as personal custody of Pia. In Rome, where Actress Bergman was caring for her seven-week-old baby...
...jazz pianist. Like another successful British-born pianist, Alec Templeton, George had been sightless from birth. But at six he had begun music lessons at London's Linden Lodge School for the Blind, kept at the classics until he was 17, when he decided he could make his living at jazz...
...ended, that young (30) School Superintendent Hunter resigned his teaching job for what he deemed a more important task. He brought out the first issue of the Journal, a single sheet printed on both sides, because "we are certain that a newspaper is a public necessity . . .[We] intend to make this our business, not our pastime." Last week, Noble Hunter was working as hard as ever at his business...