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...Marrying Kind a new comedy by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin (the authors of Adam's Rib and Born Yesterday) describes what happens when one dumb blond meets another dumb blonde one afternoon in Central Park marries her and begins life a new in a New York City apartment...

Author: By Winthrop Knowlton, | Title: The Marrying Kind | 5/13/1952 | See Source »

Whatever her effect on the cast, Miss Channing does nothing to either the songs or scenery except improve them. With wiggling hips and dumb blonde's dialect, she creates a captivating Lorelei Lee in A Little Girl From Arkansas and Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend. But only the expectation that Miss Channing will return supports the two-thirds of the show which grinds on without...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | 4/23/1952 | See Source »

...Wagna refugee camp tried to question him, he could only stare at them with round, uncomprehending eyes. At last his data was entered in the records: "Name-unknown; parents-unknown; place of birth-unknown; height-141 centimeters. Identifying features: scar on chin; scar on belly. Deaf and dumb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Janos | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

Questions. There were many unanswered questions in the saga. Authorities hoped that treatment at a state hospital for the deaf & dumb at Graz might provide the answers to some of them: doctors guessed that shock had taken his speech. Meanwhile, Janos himself offered one more sphinxlike hint'. On the night last week before he left Wagna for Graz, the boy's restlessness awakened some of the other refugees. Suddenly they heard a high-pitched, quavering voice. It was Janos talking in his sleep. "I must wait five more years!" he cried in Serbian. When he woke next morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Janos | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

Each pulpit gesture in deft dumb-show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A HARDY SAMPLER | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

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