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Since 1928, when television first opened its infant eyes, the youngster has been making goo-goos at Hollywood. Hollywood, full of its grown-up affairs, paid no attention. Now television is too big to be ignored. Last week three major studios were openly or clandestinely carrying on with the young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Flirtation | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

Amorous, ambitious Devon Elliott has rocketed from a shelf of cosmetic stink pots in a cheap Greenwich Village rented room to the ownership of Devonshire House, a cosmetic corporation whose function is thinking up things that women didn't know they desperately needed. Devonshire House has branches in 13...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lay That Pistil Down, Babe | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

Philadelphia's Jane Vaughn Sullivan, a war bride. Co-favorites were 17-year-old Gretchen Merrill, a Boston subdeb, and 14-year-old Dorothy Goos, a giggling Bronx schoolgirl with dreams of a Sonja Henie career. Miss Merrill, twice runner-up to Champion Vaughn, was bent on winning the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Queenie & Co. | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

In the school figures (which count 60% in determining a champion), meticulous Miss Merrill, letter-perfect at such difficult tracings as the loop-change-loop and bracket-change-bracket, had a big edge on the kid from The Bronx. In the free skating (five minutes of self-selected routines skated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Queenie & Co. | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

Ideas included a new technique developed by German psychologists, for revealing musical talent in one-year-old infants. System: Stimulate subject 1) by striking a clear-toned bell. 2) by uttering a Bronx cheer. If subject goo-goos pleasure at sound of bell and cries at sound of Bronx cheer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Scientists | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

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