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...fashionable Beekman Place, but she runs wild with a gang of dead-end kids on the banks of the East River. The other children at Miss Drew's School for Girls are delivered and fetched by governesses; Meg comes clattering up on roller skates, a tense, skinny gamin who wears a big hunting knife and dreams of being suckled by a lioness. When a furtive little man makes advances toward her in an automat one day, she goes right on eating her raisin bun, looks him square in the eye and asks: "Are you a pervert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Not So Innocent | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

Offstage, Piaf, now 33, is more hoyden than gamin, loves to poke fun in a husky voice at her manager and friends. And she doesn't worry about her appearance distracting; with her hair combed, and a smartly tailored suit, she is très chic. She is doggedly serious about learning English. She takes a lesson a day; instead of table hopping between her two shows at the Versailles, she studies her grammar book in her dressing room. The main reason: after her third visit to the U.S., she has decided "six months Paris, six months New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: La Vie en Rose | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...royal question" of his return was the prime issue (TIME, July 4), decided without consulting anyone to play in the French international golf tournament. Staunch monarchists winced; the King, they said, ought not to compete with just "anybody." In New York former Belgian Premier Georges Theunis peevishly grumbled: "Ce gamin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: A Perfect Golfer | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...featured with "Rogues Regiment" is a Hollywood heartwarmer entitled "Big city." It features the cop on the Beat (George Murphy), a good-hearted gamin (Butch Jenkins), and sundry other people you want to avoid. Worst of all it has Margaret O'Brien. This observer has always felt that M-G-M's Margaret is an ill-tempered, abnormal, sniveling little wretch; the sooner she reaches the awkward age the better...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Rogues' Regiment | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Last week Pianist Joyce was far from her new fans. She had gone back home to give a charity concert in the Australian mining town of Boulder, "where my father slaved and died." Some of the home folks still remembered her as a red-haired gamin who used to wheeze out Cherry Ripe on a mouth organ for pennies outside of Boulder's Angel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Encore in Australia | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

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