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...current Judy is 16-year-old Barbara Whiting, pretty, pudgy kid sister of Songstress Margaret Whiting. Agent Barren Polan found her in a Hollywood record shop, where she was heard asking for some "really sincere" recordings. "I looked," said Polan, "and it was a perfect Junior Miss." It was, indeed. Barbara played a supporting role in the cinema version of Junior Miss, has grown up into an accept able lead. She wallows in a bubblegumbo of teen-talk ("Johnny had on a suede coat that just wouldn't quit!"), is really sincere about her role. She longs to become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Really Sincere | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

Said one commissioner: "We're sticking our chin out but we're right. A champ's gotta fight." Added Chief Commissioner Col. Harvey L. Miller: "O.K., the kid runs away from the Army. But then he paid his debt to the country. He serves ten months in the Fort Leavenworth disciplinary barracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rooky's Road Back | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...about time we taught our children how to live. . . . A kid comes to school with a fresh, clean mind and an all-consuming desire to find out what life is all about. . . . [But we] accuse him of criminality for daring to be interested in some of the things which life is more about than anything else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 12, 1948 | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

Around the Hollywood studios, everyone used to call quiet André Previn "the kid." But not any more: all of a sudden he had grown up. Last week, just before his 19th birthday, M-G-M assigned him to compose, score and direct the music for a $3,000,000 musical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: From Sink to Success | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...last week, he expelled a New York Ranger hockey player-Billy ("The Kid") Taylor-from professional hockey for life. The charge: making a wager on a hockey game, which is an infraction of the rules. Campbell also suspended a Boston Bruins player-Don Gallinger-for associating with people like Parole Violator Jimmy Tamer, who wouldn't be mowing his lawn again for some time to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hockey's Dirty Linen | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

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