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...trend. Sociologists and psychologists everywhere agree that sex is here to stay. Since such a step would be of majorette significance in Harvard history, it would be necessary to conduct a coast-to-coast beauty survey. But once we had her, no more chilly afternoons in Soldiers Field. OU kid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RAISE THE BATON AVERAGE | 10/26/1939 | See Source »

Divorced. Betty Grable, 22, muffin-pretty, blonde cinemactress; from Jackie ("The Kid") Coogan, 24, once famed child cinemactor; in Los Angeles. Grounds: cruelty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...snork is Uncle Don. When he was a boy (Howard Rice, son of a horseshoe nail salesman), his pals in St. Joseph, Mich, called him "Punk." Now he is a fattish, fiftyish, rheumy-eyed, flashy-dressing showman. As a kid, he learned enough piano chords by ear to get some local esteem as a musician. Because he found he could play the piano standing on his head, he became Don Carney, the Trick Pianist of vaudeville. He got into radio 14 years ago. One day, on a half-hour's notice, he was assigned to do a children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Snork, Punk | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...being caught giving a teacher a "hot-seat", into having his name forged on the pawn ticket for the school's band instruments, though guilty of cribbing in an exam, he blunderingly comes out near the top, even to winning the girl, acted by Betty Field, from the popularity kid, played by one James Corner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/6/1939 | See Source »

...Bavarian adolescent Ludwig Bemelmans was known to his family as a Lausbub, or Katzenjammer kid. At 16, when he was shipped to the U. S., his Uncle Hans summed up a last desperate family hope when he anticipated that the cunning Americans would shear Ludwig's pelt, clip his horns. At 41, Bemelmans is a brilliant contradiction of family prophecy-a famed artist, author and illustrator of four children's classics* (Hansi, Quito Express et al.), and of two adult volumes (My War With the United States, Life Class) which rank with the most engaging of reminiscences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Home-brew | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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