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...blue-eyed Rosie was ready for anything her world could throw at her. She was nice to the press and romanced the disk jockeys. She made a children's record in which she did not sing a note, instead spoke in motherly tones to a mewling harmonica. She was not surprised to find that her first hit had lyrics that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Girl in the Groove | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...many opponents. The once lonely, homely tomboy is now a social success; she is an extremely graceful ballroom dancer and the life of almost any party, doing imitations of herself as a child singing I Get the Blues When It Rains, or hauling out a harmonica and rocking into a hillbilly air. Babe once banked $3,500 for taking her harmonica on the stage for seven days. She quit because she felt cooped up and "had to get out and see the sky again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Feb. 2, 1953 | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...separated from his wife - Hewitt lives the life, of a dull, 14-year-old boy. Unable to remember events of the present for more than a fleeting moment, he watches boxing on TV ("That's what I want to do when I grow up"), reads, plays the harmonica and guitar, helps a little with the household chores. Doctors offer little hope for further improvement. But, says his confident mother, Mrs. Mabel K. Werrett: "Love can do a lot, you know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Ring for Carolyn | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

...Fumblingly filmed in Brazil, Peru and Bolivia and awkwardly dubbed in English, Strange World features man-eating crocodiles, carnivorous piranha fish, headhunters armed with poisoned arrows, and raging rapids. But the movie's most exotic attraction is an Indian guide playing The Old Folks at Home on a harmonica as the expedition cruises down the Amazon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

Partly the difference lies in a freshness and informality. Partly it lies in a brash approach that encourages visual puns (e.g., after a harmonica quartet, Garroway is shown eating his way through an ear of corn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Chicago School | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

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