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...what Lovey says to Dovey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 8, 1948 | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Although the $500 best-of-season award went to a dreamy, lovey-dovey piece called Portrait of a Girl, the Playhouse had actually done some better work. It was one of the few shows to tell writers: "Write about anything you like." And it paid one of radio's prettiest pennies ($200) for winning scripts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Queen's Plaything | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

...think, this Lewis kind of put you and me and this place on the map. He certainly is a funny bird, but it's like in sales-pulling letters, you can give the clients the lovey-dovey stuff or you can give 'em the old one-two. Red Lewis gives 'em the old one-two. So they give him $500,000. That's just sound business practice. Maybe Lewis wasn't so dumb after all. He certainly knew where the duck was going to fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Laureate of the Boobolsie | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

First crack out of the box, the new owners of the Boston National League Baseball Club last week changed its nickname back from The Bees to the Braves. Its previous nicknames: Doves (after Owner George B. Dovey), 1907-12; Bean Eaters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Like Father, Like Fun | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

...Kingman, Ariz. There they bought a license from an awestruck clerk named Viola Olsen, and proceeded to the home of a Methodist Episcopal minister named Kenneth M. Engle. In the presence of his wife and a high-school principal named Cate, who later defined their behavior as "lovey-dovey," Mr. Engle made Clark Gable and Carole Lombard man & wife. Gable wore blue, Lombard grey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Boy Gets Girl | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

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