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Barbara Hutton, whose first was Prince Alexis Mdivani, whose second was Danish Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow and whose third was Gary Grant, swore rather faintly that she was swearing off. The wheat-blond, Ry-Krisp-thin dime-store heiress told the Hearst press: "I'm not going to get married again as long as I live. I hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Backslaps | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

Tall (6 ft.), skinny (152 Ibs.) and Cassius-cheeked, Danny is a handsome man-barring his Pinocchio nose. His face, rosy and puckish, is extraordinarily mobile. His mouth is big, his chin square, his eyes blue and easy-rolling. His hair has nervously changed from red to brown to blond at various stages of his life. Current color: carrot. His hands were once described by a critic as "the most expressive since Eleonora Duse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Git Gat Gittle | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

...from-crowded Chicago Arena, blond Figure-Skater Gretchen Merrill did the "change loop," the "three change three," the "back bracket change bracket." Five judges, stooping over the ice, solemnly scrutinized her "print" for signs of cramped, uncertain or distorted figures. Then their decisions were tabulated and averaged. The verdict: Boston's 20-year-old Gretchen was still the best. It was her fourth national...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Gretchen's Fourth | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

Until a year ago its leader was President Boleslaw Bierut, 54, a veteran Communist, who now, because of his official position, adopts an air of aloofness towards rough-&-tumble politics. Currently, the party's most brilliant performer is Industry Minister Hilary Mine (rhymes with quince), 41, a blond, bespectacled intellectual who spent the war years teaching economics in Russia. He drafted the drastic Nationalization Bill. His avowed objective is "the liquidation of feudalism and also capitalism in Poland." The son of a wealthy Warsaw businessman, Mine was brought up in comparative luxury. Old Madame Mine used to brag about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: The Peasant & the Tommy Gun | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

Tars and Spars (Columbia) introduces to the screen a likable blond zany named Sid Caesar. This otherwise routine little wartime musicomedy is about life & love in the U.S. Coast Guard-i.e., another late-arriving salute to the services, featuring singing Tar Alfred Drake, dancing Tar Marc Platt and Cinemactress Janet Blair, who is pretty and Spar-slim in a seagoing blouse and skirt. The upshot of the whole thing is predictable until Tar Sid Caesar, a product of Yonkers and the City of New York, lets loose with the most overwhelming spate of gobbledygook since the Johnstown Flood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 4, 1946 | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

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