Word: wray
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Divining Rod. In Pittsburgh, while Clerk Marie Wray was showing a customer a surplus Army rifle, the gun pointed in the direction of Customer Chester Hoak, who threw up his arms, said. "I surrender," turned out to be wanted by police for passing bad checks in nearby stores...
...more speed and stamina than any of the other 23 men and women entered in the international mass swim from France to England. She made it from Cape Gris-Nez to the cliffs of Dover in 13 hr. 53 min. More than two hours later, Britain's Kenneth Wray staggered ashore. No other swimmer even finished...
...show were faced by an additional hazard-the necessity of ungluing their small fry from the channel that featured the 1933 movie King Kong on station WOR-TV's Million Dollar Movie. Some distraught parents reported that their entranced children had watched the single-minded pursuit of Fay Wray by the colossal gorilla every single night of the five it was shown. Said a happy WOR executive: "This has been the biggest thing since Davy Crockett...
...hand do the talking-and for a man who seems to have scarcely enough muscle to move his own face, he packs quite a punch. The effect of it, in fact, is almost enough to make a moviegoer believe that this picture has a script. Anyway, it has Fay Wray, whom many customers will remember as the girl carried off by King Kong in the early...
Queen Bee (Columbia) creaks along like a slow train through Arkansas. The huffing-puffing locomotive is Joan Crawford, a siren from Chicago, and what she does to the proud sons and daughters of the Old South is a caution. Pathetic Fay Wray loses her mind when she loses her man to Joan. The luckless man (Barry Sullivan) retires to his room in the mansion house to nurse his bottle and his grudge. His wide-eyed sister, Betsy Palmer, goes out to the stable and hangs herself. Finally. John Ireland, after quivering with rage and lust for 95 minutes, brings things...