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Like many chief executives, God was henpecked by his secretary, a busybody of a woman named Myrtle who insisted on removing the centerfold picture of Playboy before allowing him to read the magazine. He was bored stiff bv the routine of his job, especially Sunday-morning "tune-in duty," when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Word: God's Diaries | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

Mrs. Fisher is a talky, bustling, busybody mom who tries to be everywhere at once-rushing to the kitchen, shouting into the cellar, hooting up the stairs -while carping and cajoling her family into line. Helen Hayes stretches her blue eyes in amazement, pursues her mobile mouth with concern and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Showing Off Miss H. | 12/15/1967 | See Source »

Still, they had some lovely moments. John Pym (Elbow) is one of those clowns who looks like he's going to pull the same funny gesture twice and stop your laugh -- and then never does. He's the one with the rubbery face and the fedora. Charles Degelman, always a...

Author: By Joel Demott, | Title: Measure for Measure | 3/4/1967 | See Source »

THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT. A righteous busybody (Alan Alda) causes a neighboring prostitute (Diana Sands) to be evicted from her place. She puts him in his-to the audience's delight.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jun. 4, 1965 | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT. A righteous busybody (Alan Alda) causes a neighboring prostitute (Diana Sands) to be evicted from her place. She puts him in his-to his dismay and the audience's delight.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 28, 1965 | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

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