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Word: bobbysoxer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Madison, making his second appearance on the silver screen in "Till the End of Time," makes great use of the same three qualities that have already endeared him to the bobbysox brigade: a great shock of blond hair, a habit of grinning upward from beneath the shock, and his sensible decision not to complicate his art with the unmanly, finer points of acting. Dorothy McGuire, who is east as Pat, Guy's galfriend, although female and fetching, apparently can't get used to the thought of not being Clandia and has trouble groping her misty-eyed way through this picture...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/29/1946 | See Source »

...through My Melancholy Baby and I Fall in Love Too Easily. Then, as is his custom, the swoonmaster turned schoolmaster to lecture his charges about a "very, very important subject known as tolerance." The subject seemed to have quite a lot to do with Frankie, too. He gave his bobbysox listeners an earnest preview of a film short he had just made, and of the kind of thing they can expect from him every few weeks in his Old Gold radio show (CBS, Wed., 9 p.m., E.W.T...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: My Father Came from Italy | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

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