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...brooding boop-a-dooper has had bad luck with maids and pets, and so she lives alone in her bird's nest. She wakes up at 5 a.m. and drives the Jag- she hates cars-diffidently to the studio. At night, if she has no date, she paints ("almost always little girls," says a friend, "and they almost always end up looking like her") or sits in her red swing and listens to 1920s records. On weekends, she does dutifully the chores of a not-yet star: she packs up her 40-lb. dress and dances the Charleston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Faces: The Girl in the Red Swing | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

...Dictatorship . . . in fact," Vishinsky says, "is democracy in action." Any mind which assents to that will have no difficulty in grasping the "fact" that black is white, a circle is a square, and that TIME is identical with Sooper Dooper Comics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 24, 1946 | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

...Missouri's Dewey Short: "It seems to me it renders rank commonplace. We set up a five-star general and they [the British] will create a super-dooper field marshal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: No Dingledangle | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

President Niles Trammell of NBC persuaded musical General Manager Kent Cooper, 61, of A.P. to publish and broadcast the Cooper-dooper Dixie Girl. Mr. Cooper "wrote the lyric and music in 1923 and the rhythm is of that time." So is the lyric: Never knew such wonderful days, Glorious days, it seems. All because her wonderful ways Make life sweeter than dreams. Chorus: 'Way down in Dixie, In sunny Dixie, Some one's waitin'. Soon I'll be datin' My darlin' Dixie girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 26, 1941 | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

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