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...Pamela had, in effect, killed the parakeet herself or whether the dog alone was to blame. These juvenile soul-searchings have proved so attractive to listeners that, last week, the Illinois Meat Co. added new territory to the family by putting a transcribed 15-minute version of the Johnson chitchat over stations WCBS in New York, WTAM in Cleveland, and WXYZ in Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Family on the Air | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...lover against his will. Katharine Hepburn is excellent as the gaunt, freckled, fanatic spinster. Their contrasting personalities fill the film with good scenes, beginning with Bogart's tea-table agony as the indelicate rumbling of his stomach keeps interrupting Missionary Robert Morley's chitchat about dear old England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 25, 1952 | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

...Chaillot, United Nations diplomats grabbed lapels and murmured propositions like a band of Chicago wardheelers choosing up a slate of aldermen. The lobbying went on outside the U.N. as well-at cocktail parties, convivial soirees and special opera performances, where diplomats who fought each other by day exchanged chitchat with each other's wives at night. The big plums were three small-power Security Council seats which become vacant at year's end. Everybody quickly settled on two of them-Chile to succeed Ecuador in one of the seats traditionally reserved for Latin America, and Pakistan to succeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE UNITED NATIONS: Gentlemen's Disagreement | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

Altar Bound (weekdays 4:15 P-M)-, ABC), transcribed at Los Angeles' Marriage License Bureau, turns loose an exclamatory interviewer named Bob Moon ("You say you're a handbag manufacturer!") on a succession of soon-to-be-wed couples. The ensuing chitchat, enlivened by gushing superlatives, arch evasions and coy giggles, makes no major contribution to the art of man-on-the-street interviewing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The New Shows | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

...kind of chitchat that used to be heard only in beauty shops and over tea tables is now increasingly available on TV. Last week Faye Emerson, one of the prettiest of the amiable gossips, moved her dazzling shoulders and her small talk about earrings, books, parties and people to a new time and a new network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Not Too Heavy | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

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