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...November, with his club floundering badly it became necessary for dapper little Conny Smythe to throw his weight (165 Ibs.) around. Like Little Lord Fauntleroy gone amuck, he lit into his blubbery, 197-lb. goalie, Turk Broda, and ordered him to melt down to 190, or else. He benched Broda, threatened to bench four others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Operation Blue Chip | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

...when Betsy Fauntleroy, 16, got him to the point where he popped the question. Betsy turned him down cold, not once but twice; and not even a letter to her father helped. Not until Washington began to wrestle with his hopeless passion for the married Sally Fairfax is there any sign of another serious love affair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Virginians | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...biggest jobs: to convince 37 nationalities in some of Boston's grimmest slums that he was no Fauntleroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Faces in the House | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

Married. Frederick Cecil ("Freddie") Bartholomew, 22, British-born child star of prewar cinema (Little Lord Fauntleroy, Captains Courageous)', and Maely Daniele, 28, his pressagent; he for the first time, she for the third; in Las Vegas, Nev., three weeks after Freddie had promised his Aunt Myllicent that he would wait two months and then have a glorious Hollywood wedding (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 6, 1946 | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

...Glee clubs and dramatics (when Eddie Cantor wore velvet pants on his way to play Fauntleroy at the Alliance, a Jefferson Street toughie blacked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: 50 Years Off the Bowery | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

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