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...thug who fears nothing he can get his hairy hands on and thinks he can get them on everything, hops spiderishly from plot to pointless plot. Luigi (Folco Lulli) is a big warm country boy from Italy, so stupid (as Mario sees him) that he works for a living. Bimba (Peter Van Eyck) is a graduate of a Nazi concentration camp, a German as hard as such an education can make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 21, 1955 | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

Love That Oil. What with customs duties, high profits and low farm output, Caracas prices† average twice as high as Manhattan's, but oil keeps the money moving; the buying power of Customer Juan Bimba (Mr. Average Venezuelan) has risen 63% in eight years. The country is the U.S.'s fourth biggest cash customer (after Canada, Mexico and Cuba), taking everything from steel beams to baked beans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: The Busy Bs | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

...role of sportswoman, went mountain fishing, hooked a plump Kamloops trout and had a photograph to prove it, Metropolitan Opera Soprano Patrice Munsel returned to Manhattan to find a goodly catch there, too: three new roles for the winter opera season, plus news that her first popular recording, Bella Bimba, was headed for big sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 17, 1951 | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

Kiddies of Caracas used to listen on the radio with bated breath to "Tío Timoteo" (Uncle Tim), wondering how he knew that little Juan Bimba's birthday present was under the sofa and that Babita was not eating enough cereal. He knew, of course, because fond parents wrote in and asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Uncle Tim's Last Broadcast | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

...turned out, was 6 ft. 2 in. of grown-up brawn; some friend had wanted to play a little joke. José's idea: to apply the fist of José to the nose of Timoteo so hard that Timoteo would no longer give advice to Juan Bimba and Babita...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Uncle Tim's Last Broadcast | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

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