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...they would only lose ten pounds." Among them-Cinemactress Jane Russell, "four inches too big through the pectoralis muscles, both major and minor"; Actress Denise (Pardon Our French) Parcel, "one of the sexiest figures ever to grace our shores, but she's still ten pounds too sexy"; Tallulah Bankhead, "too much around the rectus abdominis region"; Anne (Kiss Me, Kate) Jeffreys, "a reduction in the gluteus muscles, both maximus and medius, is indicated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Chosen Few | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

...hinted that the salary under discussion would be "less than $200,000 a year," but probably more than the $100,000-a-year salary of her father. NBC's interest in Margaret, said Barry, resulted from her "great performance" when she sang and acted last month on Tallulah Bankhead's The Big Show. Of her possibilities as a future mistress of ceremonies he said, ecstatically: "Miss Truman has a quality that you rarely hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The People's Choice | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

...Roosevelt's own inexhaustible fund of chatty conversation and the glamour of her guests (some of the recent ones: Boxer Ezzard Charles, Cartoonist Al Capp, Minister Perle Mesta, Actress Tallulah Bankhead) have given the program a 2.7 Pulse rating against the 2.3 of her veteran rival Mary Margaret McBride. But what disconcerts many listeners is the drumfire of basic-English commercials, fead in pear-shaped Grotonese, with which the show is slittered. Mrs. Roosevelt may murmur to a distinguished guest: "And now I think Elliott would like to say something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Having Fun with Mother | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...Show (Sun. 6 p.m., NBC). Fred Allen, Jimmy Durante, Ethel Merman. M.C.: Tallulah Bankhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Nov. 6, 1950 | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

...opening last week in Greenwich Village's cavernous Cafe Society, the joint was jammed-but not with the intellectuals who used to lounge at the bar and dig the jazz. With Tallulah Bankhead to help lead the cheering, Joe Bushkin had become a darling of the Cadillac-convertible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Success Story | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

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