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Rich, bighearted, wackish Uncle Daniel Ponder has. among other benefactions, married a pretty little birdbrain (Sarah Marshall) and brought her-with her love of household gadgets-to a house without electricity, where she dies, at length, of fright during a thunderstorm. Prodded by an ambitious lawyer, her back-country kin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Feb. 27, 1956 | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

His good works are so famed that the veterans' annual fishing trip, now in its eighth year, is a Texas institution, and boat owners are glad to lend their boats for it. Nevertheless, Anderson has nothing but scorn for the "bighearted amateur do-gooder." Says he: "There's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Good-Works Beat | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

David Wayne plays Songstress 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 7, 1952 | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

"I am respectable, cultured, well-behaved and poised, proud, quiet and refined, clean-minded, meek and immaculate, delicate, tender, bighearted, lovable, unselfish, unspoiled, generous and ambitious. I don't gossip, I'm not vengeful, don't gamble or drink, have rare dexterity, am supermundane, possess savoir faire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Last Word | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

The Veep came out looking old and tired and sat down to the most strained press conference in his political history. Two stenographers kept careful record as he explained that Flo Bratten was "an accommodating, good-natured, bighearted woman." Would she keep her job? Said Barkley, woodenly: "I am not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: An Influential Twosome | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

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