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Born. To Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly Brinker, 22, blonde ex-Tennis Queen (1953 championships in Australia, France, England and the U.S.), and Gorman Brinker, 25, member of the 1952 U.S. Olympic equestrian team and San Diego State College student: a girl their first child. Name: Cynthia Ann. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 10, 1957 | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

...Onetime Cinemoppet Shirley Temple was signed last week as narrator for a series of one-hour fairy tales, and things look Grimm elsewhere. CBS is preparing a 9O-min. musical version of Aladdin for the fall, and NBC has at least six others brewing, including Pinocchio, Hans Brinker and The Pied Piper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...month with a Judy Garland production, to be followed by three Noel Coward shows, two musical dramas starring Bing Crosby. Ed Murrow's See It Now will include TV "profiles" of New York and Paris and a camera's report on Africa. Omnibus goes musical with Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates, score by Brigadoon's Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowe. Also scheduled: a documentary on the Renaissance by LIFE Writer Robert Coughlan, a comedy starring British Jack-of-All-Jokes Alec Guinness, The Battle of Gettysburg by Bruce (A Stillness at Appomattox) Catton. Victor Borge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: $75 Million Package | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

Married. Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly, 20, retired world tennis queen (Australia, France, England and U.S. championships in 1953) turned sports columnist (for the San Diego Union); and Norman A. Brinker, 24, San Diego State College sophomore and member of the U.S. Olympic equestrian team (1952); in San Diego...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 20, 1955 | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

...with a cement mixer and dropped out of amateur competition with a broken leg. Now, said Little Mo, her leg had mended but her spirit had not. A comeback was not worth the effort. Standing hand-in-hand with her fiancé, San Diego State College Sophomore Norman A. Brinker, she announced: "I just don't enjoy tennis any more. I've lost that old spark . . . So I said, 'Let's analyze it, Mo. There's no use going on like this; might as well tie that hitch and get married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Road to the Pros | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

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