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...Klein is a 36-year-old Detroiter who wears flashy sports jackets and sharp shoes, and uses the gee-whiz vocabulary of Henry Aldrich. He has also become rich (two Cadillacs, a 32-ft. Chris-Craft and a private plane) by inducing thousands of Americans without skill or talent to take up oil painting. Klein, a graduate chemist, got his training as a patron of the arts by running a garage and working at General Motors, where he bossed 40 men ironing out production bugs for G.M.'s subcontractors. But he longed for something more creative. Recalls Klein: "Gee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Art by the Numbers | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

...front of Manhattan's Vanderbilt Theater one matinee day last week, a moppet sadly said to mother: "Gee, I wish I could see Mrs. Hecht's little girl in this." But Mrs. Hecht's little girl had just been forced out of the cast of the play Midsummer by Actors' Equity, and Broadway rang with the loudest theatrical Donnybrook in many a season. Actress Jenny Hecht seemed small (9 years, 45 Ibs.) to create such a furor. But then, as her father, Playwright (Front Page) Ben Hecht, had himself once remarked: (There never was an uninhibited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Saga of Jenny | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

Last week Joni James was back in Chicago for a triumphal stage appearance at the Chicago Theater. The audience cheered when she swept out in a floor-length, white-beaded number and bounced through a happy performance of Gee, but It's Great to Be Again in My Home Town-and into her hit songs. Joni also found time while in Chicago for a sentimental visit to Bowen High School. She hugged her old teachers on sight, wept openly when she sang in her old place in the Bowen High mixed chorus, accepted a bouquet of roses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: It Can Happen to You | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

...much-and not much more-is known about the new Soviet Premier: Georgy (pronounced Gay-oŕ-gee) Maximilianovich (Maxy-milly-ya'-no-vitch) Malenkov (Mah-len-koff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death In The Kremlin: THE MAN THAT STALIN BUILT | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

Mather's ambition to seat a conservative was continued by the equally conservative and egocentric Rev. Joshua Gee 1717, his successor in the pulpit. Gee and Edward Holyoke, 1705, both sought the post, vacated when Wadsworth died in office...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: Candidates Sneer, Electioneer Through History | 3/6/1953 | See Source »

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