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Kay's appeal is terrific because it is double-edged: his daffy antics convulse people at the same moment that his incredible virtuosity astounds them.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musicals in Manhattan, Nov. 10, 1941 | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

There were daffy doings last week in an old colonial garden in Virginia. The garden belonged to Hampton Manor, 486-acre estate near Bowling Green, Va. The estate, with a brick mansion, built in 1838 by Virginia Legislator Daniel de Jarnette from plans by his friend Thomas Jefferson, is now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Enchanted Garden | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

Out of the Paramount Studio in Hollywood last week came some of the most uninhibited, daffy nonsense to hit the U. S. screen since the heyday of Harold Lloyd. It was Road to Zanzibar, and its principal assets were two recruits from radio who bounced gaily through its inanities like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Groaner | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

TRAITOR'S PURSE-Margery Alllngham -Crime Club ($2). Daffy from a copper's clout, Albert Campion sheds his amnesia in time's nick, saves England from civil commotion. Present are Manservant Lugg and Lady Amanda Fritton, Campion's fiancee. Another of Margery Allingham's well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: March Murders | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

Many people who work with Bill Lear in laboratories by day think he is a genius. Many who see him by night, paying his way into café society, think he is daffy. What the latter fail to understand is that he works while he plays. Some of his best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Brash Young Man | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

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