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Word: irma (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wide Difference. Two reasons for its higher-than-average caliber are Producer-Writer Cy Howard, an old radio-TV hand (Luigi, My Friend Irma), and the star of the piece 44-year-old Eddie Mayehoff. Three years ago, in the Howard-written movie, That's My Boy!, Comedian Mayehoff qualified for some kind of screen immortality by stealing the show from two Dillingers of scene stealing, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Mayehoff played Jarrin' Jack Jackson, the all-American has-been. That role, now revived for television, seems a natural. Mayehoff feels that the character has been with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Daddy with a Difference | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

...courtyard of Lower Saxony's yellow-walled Hameln prison. They were buried on the spot in plain coffins in a common unmarked grave. Most were ex-warders from nightmarish Belsen, including suet-faced ex-Commandant Joseph Kramer, the "Beast of Belsen," and his 21-year-old girl assistant Irma Grese, whose particular hobby consisted of turning her fierce dogs loose on Belsen's helpless inmates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Decent Burial | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

...exile, Playboy Farouk last week gave a royal brushoff to a bill collector who wanted to collect on a $5,000 underwear bill, and drove off to Monte Carlo in a station wagon with his latest collector's item, brunette Irma Capece Minutolo, aged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: The Fond Collector | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

Meet Millie's Elena Verdugo once in a great while carries a piece of paper from her desk to a filing cabinet, but, with that chore over, she takes it easy by necking with the boss's son (Ross Ford). My Friend Irma's Marie Wilson is portrayed as a bosomy sub-cretin who spends her office hours listening ecstatically while the recorded voice of a telephone operator recites the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Working Girls | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

...astonishing eccentricity as to make televised life in the U.S. resemble visiting day at London's 17th century Bedlam. Outstanding are Meet Millie's Marvin Kaplin as a frustrated poet-author-composer, Private Secretary's Marcel Dalio as a continental singer with a compulsive giveaway urge. Irma's Donald MacBride as a terrible-tempered Mr. Bang, and Our Miss Brooks's complete gallery of juvenile and adult delinquents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Working Girls | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

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