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...benches Christie stood watching them, bald and spectacled, looking exactly like the 55-year-old, $23 a-week clerk he was. One of seven children, he had been spoiled by his mother, a talented musician, bullied by his father. Early in life sexual immaturity made him the butt of girl-friend jokes. In World War I he was wounded by a mustard-gas shell, lost his sight for five months and the power of speech for three years. Working as a clerk, he met and married Ethel Simpson, took a job as a postman but was caught opening mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In a Strange Country | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

Matilda, Matilda! (Harry Belafonte; Victor). Folk Singer Belafonte runs breathlessly through a calypso-type song about a two-timing girl-friend ("She-take-me-money-and-run-Venezuela...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Jun. 22, 1953 | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

Somebody's girl-friend left the Yale game barefooted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Barefoot Babe at Yale Test May Have High Heels at HAA | 11/28/1952 | See Source »

Only explanations offered by the thief are that he "enjoyed a good time" adding later that his robberies were done to aid a girl-friend to cure her of the drug habit. Only visitors to see him since his arrest have been his father and lawyer, and no further details have been available...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Parkhurst Confesses, Given Two Year Federal Sentence | 1/22/1947 | See Source »

...such points where the movie might sag. Ralph Bellamy is the perfect sucker for the schemes of Grant, and the reporters who are constantly present in the press-room of the jail keep things moving. Fine dramatic relief is provided by the efforts of the condemned murderer and his girl-friend. The purpose of the picture, though, is fun for all, and it achieves that purpose with a bang...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/8/1940 | See Source »

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