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Closing the Gap. In the TV show, Jarrin' Jack can never quite reconcile himself to the fact that Junior is not a muscular fresh-air fiend like himself, but a studious type who collects tropical fish. Junior is convincingly played by Gil Stratton Jr., burr head, droop jaw, horn rims and all. What particularly jars Jack is the knowledge that the son of his meek, pint-sized office bookkeeper is a strapping answer to a football coach's prayer. Yet in program four, after Pop has the bookkeeper's boy underfoot for a weekend, he finds that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Daddy with a Difference | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

Huge Following. Haled to Communist headquarters in the Street of the Dark Shops to explain her charges, Teresa failed to show up. Ever since then, she has scrupulously avoided all Communist get-togethers. But Teresa Longo at 53 is no clinging vine destined to droop forlornly for lack of attention. No one can tell her plans for the future, but she has a big following of her own among Italy's Communist women, most of whom, like herself, are against divorce. As one observer put it last week: "It would have been far better for Longo to have Teresa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Red Rose with Thorns | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

...Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Robert B. Carney, commander of NATO forces in southern Europe, made a last inspection of the 8th Regiment of Italy's famed Bersaglieri. Remembering the strict uniform regulations of official Washington, Admiral Carney tried on, just for size, one of the flashy, droop-feathered hats of the crack sharpshooters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 6, 1953 | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

...showing weeds curling up and dying under a chemical weed killer. After a World War II Navy hitch, Ott spent three years making a two-minute movie which showed primroses "dancing" to the rhythm of a Strauss waltz. He did this after discovering that he could make the primroses droop or rise by controlling their moisture and temperature. The movie was such a success that Ott quit his bank job, built big new greenhouses, installed cameras and elaborate timing mechanisms to work them. In four years his gross has risen from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RESEARCH: The Time-Lapse Movie | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

Divorced. Peter Lorre, 49, droop-eyed cinemenace (M, Mr. Moto, Double Confession); by Kaaren Verne Lorre, 35, former cinemactress (The Seventh Cross, Kings Row); after eight years of marriage, no children; in Las Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 29, 1953 | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

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