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...Blonde Cinemactress Virginia Mayo, 26, appeared to two men to be the answer to a problem. "The Sultan of Morocco told [her] that she was for him the most striking proof of God's existence," said the Rev. A. J. Long, 29-year-old bachelor pastor of Britain's Southwark Unitarian Church. "Why not?" mused Pastor Long. "The beauty of woman is a revelation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 16, 1949 | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...spat in Durocher's direction and said: "Here, Leo, this is for you." As five hapless Giant pitchers were mauled, he cried at the Giant boss: "Why don't you go in and pitch yourself, you monkey?" Leo also said he heard Fan Boysen reviling his wife, Cinemactress Laraine Day. In the ninth inning, Leo stepped out of the dugout, stared at his heckler and ducked back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Out In Center-Field | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...were wearing a sack of potatoes." Trailing Elsa came sexagenarian Musicomedienne Mistin-guett ("Continues to display her gams . . . has refused to adopt the new look"), Alice Roosevelt Longworth ("Doesn't have the time to bother about such things"), Signora Rita Togliatti ("Not born with good taste"), Cinemactress Greer Garson ("Draperies and dresses are not the same thing"), Gypsy Rose Lee ("Looks better in her G-string...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Let's Face It | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

Shirley Temple would reach 21 this week and thus qualify to receive some of the big money she earned as a child cinemactress, including $11,000 won in a libel suit from an English paper that once described her as a 30-year-old midget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 25, 1949 | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...Joints, Iced Highballs. Already sold out through June 11, the annual Shakespeare Festival opened last week with Macbeth, starring Godfrey Tearle and Cinemactress Diana Wynyard. Among the season's brand-new productions: John Gielgud's Much Ado About Nothing, Tearle's Othello, Tyrone Guthrie's Henry VIII. By October, the theater management reckons that it will have taken in something close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Bard Clicks in Sticks | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

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