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Born. To Carol Charming, 32, doll-eyed musicomedienne who rocked Broadway as the dimwitted gold digger in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Alexander Carson, 29, former private eye and now pro-football center (Ottawa Rough Riders): their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Channing. Weight: 9 Ibs. 2 oz.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 6, 1953 | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

The reason why they don't, we are told, is down-on-her-luck musical comedy actress, played, no less, by Uta Hagen in blonde hair and blue silk pajamas. In the course of her efforts to break into the Italian cinema and recoup her fortune, Miss Hagen collects her...

Author: By Joseph P. Lorenz, | Title: In Any Language | 9/25/1952 | See Source »

His name was John Erskine and he was no page-assignment teacher. After a few years at Amherst, he moved on to Columbia University to become one of the most noted and notable men on the faculty. He was a spiky-haired scholar, with a hulking figure, a florid face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Performer with a Passion | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

Archie, the dimwitted, malapropped manager of Duffy's Tavern, has never been known to his Third Avenue customers or his nationwide radio audience as a particularly fast man with a buck. But by last week, when Duffy's Tavern (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., NBC) returned to the air...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Call of the Islands | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Audiences will not be in much suspense, but they may stay interested just wondering what the dimwitted, unprincipled characters will think of next. They think of a good many things, mostly criminal. Almost as soon as Edward G. Robinson spots Joan Bennett underneath a street lamp, cinemaddicts will be able...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 21, 1946 | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

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