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...west of London, rang up Betty Stevens in nearby Maidenhead. "I thought you'd like to know-we have a lovely case of German measles," she said. "Oh, how lovely!" said Mrs. Stevens. "Charles will be delighted. We'll be over next week to catch them." So Colleen Dicks, who had been threatened with cancellation of her ninth birthday party last week because she had German measles, had a party after all. As she blew out the nine candles Colleen presumably sent a virus-laden breath over Guest of Honor Antonia Stevens. Colleen also bestowed infectious kisses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Catch It If You Can | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

...current squad are Minnesotans; three of them seniors. Charles Mohlke is president of the student governing body and majors in English, philosophy and political science; Colleen Nelson majors in zoology and music and is a bird watcher by avocation; Joseph Shechtman is a sociology major and the team expert on everything; Eleanor Vaill is a junior majoring in drama and usually has the answers to questions on quotations from poetry. The team gets together about once a week for an hour or two of practice and, the night of the match, eats at a university training table, where, reportedly they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Twelve Straight | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

Born. To Teresa Brewer, 23, tiny, leather-lunged jukebox songstress (Music! Music! Music!; Till I Waltz Again with You), and Bill Monahan, 27, music publisher: a third daughter, third child; in The Bronx. Name: Megan Colleen. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 8, 1954 | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

That's just another cosmopolitan custom, Shelley assures her. But when Colleen goes out with Shelley's boy friend

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 28, 1954 | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

Exonerated because her victim has gallantly last-gasped that it was all an accident, Shelley is nevertheless thrown out of work by the scandal. "The main thing wrong with the future." she broods, "is that it gets here so much sooner than it used to." Colleen cannot get modeling dates, either, and when a girl cannot get modeling dates in New York, there is nothing for her to do. it would appear, but to ac cept the $100 kind. She winds up moiling for mobsters, but in due time finds a way (Gregg Palmer) to restore her amateur standing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 28, 1954 | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

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