Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Show Business" [TIME, Jan. 19]: The Boy with the Green Hair was only temporarily postponed . . . and the film starts production Feb. 9. . . It is my belief that the so-called atmosphere of fear exists only in the minds of those who wish us to believe there is an atmosphere of fear. I am convinced that progressive picturemakers, such as Darryl Zanuck and Samuel Goldwyn, will continue to [combine] what they believe to be good picturemaking with courage and a point of view. . . . Here at RKO we are continuing to plan pictures that we hope will be good films and still...
Last week, at the University of North Carolina, Psychologist Charles R. Elliott pronounced himself satisfied with two years of tests on Max Sherover's cerebrograph-a combination record-player, electric clock and pillow microphone. Elliott had selected 15 three-letter words (boy, egg, say, art, run, not, sir, leg, bag, row, ice, out, age, box, eat) and recorded them. Then he picked 40 students, all with perfect hearing, as his guinea pigs...
...dolls, and a pair of ice skates when she was six. Until Barbara Ann was ten, her mother made all her clothes. She was the kind of little girl who was nev.er mussed or wrinkled. She kept dogs, cats, birds, rabbits and white mice, and played the piano. The boy who used to be a neighbor still proudly displays a scar over his left eye where Barbara Ann hit him with a shovel: it is one of the few unladylike acts ever recorded against her; and the boy is now convinced that he must have been in the wrong...
...nine, and gave up going to school. For 2½ hours each morning she was tutored by Miss Seeley, who later also tutored the grandchildren of Princess Alice and the Governor General. As a French student, Barbara Ann was embarrassed by "masculine" and "feminine" for genders, and substituted "boy" and "girl...
...Switzerland's first great impressionist, he began drawing at five. He laughed at his father's landscapes ("Why do you paint this tree? You don't have to. Don't you see that it is already there?"). His father let the boy paint pretty much as he pleased, gently correcting him whenever he could...