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...Stopping Dimwit. Another primitive African, undoubtedly human, was recently found by Keith Jolly of the University of Cape Town and described by Professor M. R. Drennan in Britain's Nature magazine. In a "blowout" (wind-eroded area) near Saldanha, 80 miles north of Cape Town, Jolly found the ground littered with the bones of extinct animals: mammoths, giant wart hogs and a primitive giraffe. Among the bones were 25 fragments that fitted together into a thick-walled, beetle-browed human skull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

Here's Your Muffler. The impeccable Jeeves and the peccant Bertie Wooster, P.G.'s most famous characters, do not figure in these stories. Instead, there is the terrible Lord Bodsham, "The Curse of the Eastern Counties," and his dimwit daughter, Mavis Peasmarch. There is Freddie Widgeon, "a pretty clear-thinking chap [who] realized that you can't go strewing babies all over the place"; and Horace Bewstridge, an indomitable golfer who "clasped [Vera Witherby] to his bosom, using the interlocking grip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: P.G. Flitters On | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

Destination Moon uses expert technical tricks to picture the oddities of travel beyond the earth's atmosphere and gravity Its four lunar explorers-a physicist (Warner Anderson), an industrialist (John Archer), a retired general (Tom Powers) and a dimwit radio operator (Dick Wesson)-float weirdly around the inside of the rocket until they put on magnetized boots. Then they can walk on the walls. When a radar antenna jams, they go out on the hull in pressurized monkey suits to make repairs while traveling at seven miles a second. The scientist slips off into space, and his traveling companions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 10, 1950 | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

Belinda is harshly treated by her father (Charles Bickford) and her aunt (Agnes Moorehead), and is generally regarded as a dimwit. Then the new doctor discovers her and teaches her sign language. She has scarcely begun to blossom when she is raped by the local Lothario (Stephen McNally). She gives birth to a baby, and refuses to name the father. Everyone assumes that the doctor is guilty and he has to leave town. But after a murder and a courtroom scene, everything turns out all right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 25, 1948 | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...screen. He climbs a ladder made of ladies. Rung No. 1 is Zeena (Joan Blondell), the midway's mentalist. He plays cozy with her just long enough to swipe a pseudo-telepathic formula through which he can graduate to the big time. No. 2 is a luscious, loyal dimwit named Molly (Coleen Gray), whom he marries. No. 3 is Lilith (Helen Walker), a pseudo-psychiatrist who outsmarts him at his own racket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 3, 1947 | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

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