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...happy clown, a sometimes sophomoric cutup who delights in sticking his head out of the team bus and tying up traffic on the way to a game with his piercing imitation of a police whistle. His pretty wife Mary, a onetime Charleston, W. Va. telephone operator, cannot understand why everyone does not love him. Home from an afternoon of fidgeting in the ballpark, Lew is a fond father who likes to stretch out in the living room and turn the hi-fi to blasting-level for Dixieland or "grand ole opry" records. He amuses his children-Lewis Kent, 6, Madge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: October's Hero | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...playing a lively jazz piano, was 25-year-old Robin Douglas-Home. Tall, blond and thinly handsome, Robin was no ordinary pianist. He was nephew of the Earl of Home, who is currently the Tory leader in the House of Lords. Robin is a close friend of that young cutup, the Duke of Kent, and a frequent escort of his sister Princess Alexandra. After five years as an officer in the Seaforth Highlanders, Robin was training to be an advertising copywriter by day (at $40 a week), working as a pianist at night (at $84 a week). Soon Robin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Princess & the Pianist | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

...Never Too Young (Paramount) stars the overworked team of Martin & Lewis in the same overworked plot. This time. Dean Martin is a teacher at a girls' school and Cutup Jerry Lewis is a barber's apprentice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 8, 1955 | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

Church & Athletics. Of the three Kelly daughters, Peggy was the oldest and a cutup, Lizanne the youngest and an extrovert. Grace, the middle one, born Nov. 12, 1929, was shy, quiet, and for years snuffled with a chronic cold. The big, 15-room house in plain East Falls, across the Schuylkill River from the Main Line, was the meeting place for the whole neighborhood. "There was a lawn out back with swings and a sandbox, a tennis court and the usual things like that," says Grace. Summers, the Kelly family had a house on the Jersey shore at Ocean City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Girl in White Gloves | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...Captain Horace had the same sort of trouble in 1952, but made up before court convened. This time, though, it seemed that Marion intended to go through with it. Hollywood was not surprised, because it had been a stormy marriage. Even for fun-loving Marion, Captain Horace was a cutup. On one occasion he found a gun and shot out all the Japanese lanterns around the family swimming pool during a party, then went into the huge parking area of the mansion and shot and slashed all the tires on the guests' cars...

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

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