Word: monica
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...stage in earnest imitation of atomic forces at work. An ample electron in black lace wound her way around two matrons labeled "proton" and "neutron" while an elderly ginger-haired Geiger counter clicked out their radioactive effect on a pretty girl named Agriculture. At a climactic moment, a Mrs. Monica Davial raced across the stage in spirited representation of a rat eating radioactive cheese. Mrs. Davial, it was noted in the program, had "recently returned from a trip to Tibet" and hence presumably had a nice understanding of these things. A small boy named Bunny May was on hand...
Died. Lou Clayton (real name: Louis Finkelstein), 63, onetime partner of Jimmy Durante (with Eddie Jackson, they made one of the most popular horse-play-and-patter teams of the '20s), his manager since 1932; of cancer; in Santa Monica...
Born. To Tony Martin, 36, butter-voiced cinemactor and nightclub crooner, and Cyd Charisse, 26, ballerina turned movie dancer (Fiesta): their first child (her second), a son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Tony. Weight...
...last leg of the run from Los Angeles. It was 5:40 a.m., and Chicago was only 148 miles away. On an adjoining track, also Chicago-bound, the slower Kansas City Chief clicked along at a modest 65. In both trains, as they raced side by side near Monica, Ill., dawn and restlessness had prodded light sleepers into wakefulness. Washrooms were crowded with women prettying their faces and men shaving...
Died. Jane Cowl, 65, oldtime glamorous Broadway star (Romeo and Juliet) turned Hollywood character actress (The Secret Fury), playwright (coauthor of such hits as Smilin' Through and Lilac Time), wartime co-director of Manhattan's Stage Door Canteen; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif...