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...Utmost. Solid and sure, and cheerful as a cherub, 58-year-old Nurse Haussknecht is on a three-month tour of U.S. cities, showing and explaining a series of colored slides of the Lambaréné mission, shaking hands and smiling and answering questions. She tells how old Dr. Schweitzer still makes the last rounds of all the patients in the hospital every night, because two years ago one of them, in reply to his morning greeting, said that he had not slept at all the night before, "waiting for you to say good night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Missionary from Lambar | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

...Spitting Sound. Dennis, a pink, cherub-faced man, takes his music seriously. His lips are insured for ?10,000, and he avoids all sports except table tennis-a ping-pong ball could hardly damage him, he feels. As for his horn-playing technique, modest Dennis has a simple explanation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Young Man with a Horn | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

...director made use of the fact that Italian children are among the world's most charming and filled the screen with them. He drew on a universal sympathy for the underdog and respect, if not reverence, for priests, bishops, and popes. He wove these around a chubby cherub and a scrawny donkey and released a picture that one can only call effective. It is neither good nor bad, but merely a well-illustrated sermon...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Never Take No For An Answer | 4/23/1952 | See Source »

...Senate's Kefauver investigating committee visited the City of the Angels last week and sought out its most aggrieved blue-jowled cherub, roly-poly Gambler Mickey Cohen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: I Ain't Never . . . | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

Last week Austria's officials were again interested in Thorleif's features. As a grownup, onetime Cherub Capri had been appointed fund raiser for Austria's Orphans' Aid Society. He had got his hands as well as his face on 37,000 schillings' worth of banknotes and quietly absconded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Face & Hands | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

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