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Frankie found that adolescence is one of the loneliest of human experiences. John Henry was too much of a kid to help her much. Berenice Brown was too much of an adult. When Berenice talked-her stationary blue eye still fixed on the evening paper, and her active brown eye roving around the room-adult life was fascinating but bafflingly ambiguous. According to Berenice, a man might wake up one morning and find to his surprise that he was "to all intents and purposes" a woman. And even if people stayed the way they were, their actions remained incomprehensible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The End of F. Jasmine Addams | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

...appearance tour with the movie she made five years ago, but somehow the spontaneity was gone. At a Chicago cocktail party, swarming newsmen found her just as advertised. Miss Russell informed them: "I'm sick of talking about myself." On her movie: "They should have let Billy the Kid lie where he was." She eyed her admirers, observed: "How they drool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 25, 1946 | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

...offered a wide choice. Young Widow, a sentimental wartime domestic drama with incidental stretches of comedy, was overwhelmingly Jane-in mourning, in love, in various stages of dress and undress. In The Outlaw, Oldtimers Thomas Mitchell and Walter Huston did their sly best with the saga of Billy the Kid. Jane, as a sulky, sexy, persistently semiclad half-breed, had a relatively minor part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: This Week: Jane Russell | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

...Kid Stuff. In Columbus, Ohio, Saloonkeeper Sam Barkan cheerfully opened up after hours to let a wide-eyed little girl use the phone, forked over $125 to her companions: two gunmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 18, 1946 | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

...lavish attention as a matter of course; surveys his Hollywood home and his Manhattan apartment, richly decorated in antiques and colonial furniture, with a satisfied eye. He seldom slips into his custom-made, monogrammed shirts, or expensive, tailor-made suits, without the triumphant recollection that once he was a kid from Brooklyn...

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

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