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...everybody's gibes. He is badgered by Tenor Dennis Day, by Orchestra Leader Phil Harris, by Announcer Don Wilson, by Miss Livingstone-and by his valet Rochester. The Bennys have been married since 1927, have a six-year-old adopted daughter named Joan Naomi. Benny calls his wife "Doll"; she calls him "Dollface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jell-O's Dollface | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...approached the unfamiliar narrow counters, laden with cheap trinkets, household goods, gewgaws. Prices were marked, and signs said "Look What One Milreis Will Buy." The gawkers did not buy. Then, one and a half hours after opening, a seven-year-old girl broke the ice, bought a 2 milreis doll. The cash register has been banging ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAILING: An American in Rio | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...would have taken a Gustave Doré to do justice to the big beauty of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony. No Dore, Disney peoples his classical Olympus with smirking "centaurettes," smirkingly brassiered, with calf-eyed centaurs and kewpie-doll cupids, makes Bacchus' bacchanale look like a nursery lemonade party, leaves his audience wondering whether he is serious, or merely trying to be cute by putting diapers on Olympus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Disney's Cinesymphony | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...pink silk, imitating the peritoneum, glistening lining of the abdomen. Red yarn, knitted by Dr. Van Hoosen herself, showed the pattern of abdominal muscles, Fallopian tubes, ovaries. The mouth of the uterus was knitted in a purl stitch, the body in plain stitch. Inside the womb was a rubber doll, encased in a bag of Cellophane, attached to the placenta (a dark red knitted cap) by an umbilical cord of red corrugated rubber balloons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgery Made Plain | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

...adventure in which Seabrook, using black magic and a nail-studded doll, al most killed a French wizard who had cast a deadly spell over Mrs. Seabrook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mumble-Jumble | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

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