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Marriage Revealed. Ezzard Charles, 29, world heavyweight boxing champion; and his longtime friend, Gladys ("Gee Gee") Gartrell, 22, onetime elevator operator; on Dec. 30, 1949; in New Kensington, Pa. Also revealed: the birth (on Feb. 13) of their first child, a daughter. Name: Deborah. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 2, 1951 | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

...telephone booth in the lobby of Los Angeles' post office building, a thin, bright-eyed 17-year-old talked excitedly into the phone: "Gee, Mom, you shoulda seen it. Gangsters and crooks everywhere. They were telling Mr. Kefauver about murders and losing millions of dollars gambling. It was just like the movies . . . Just listen, Mom, the Senator's coming past right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: It Pays to Organize | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

Snow-bunny: "Gee, the country around here is pretty...

Author: By G. JEROME W. goodman, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 3/7/1951 | See Source »

...town for Texas, where they are now members of the U.S. Air Force. Owners McCarter and Scheiderer, both ex-servicemen, had just about decided to enlist. Ex-Advertising Manager Richard Pfar, daily expecting his own Army call, offered a final comment on the short, busy life of Station WKGR: "Gee, if we had known we were operating outside the law, we wouldn't have done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Outside the Law | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

...sentences which though in English are in an obviously foreign word order. It is wise to use a language which vaguely corresponds with the surname of the writer. At the sight of this peculiarly phrased sentence, the following train of thought inevitably goes through the grader's mind: "Gee this guy is obviously a foreigner; must have come all the way from Bulgaria just to go to Harvard. Anybody who would travel that far to go to school must have something on the ball." That's all there is to it. Once the grader has decided the writer must...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 1/17/1951 | See Source »

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