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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playing Hooky. Elaine, born in Philadelphia, is the daughter of Yiddish Actor Jack Berlin. She began by playing little boys in Yiddish plays, later quit high school in Los Angeles and studied acting with the late Maria Ouspenskaya. To eat, she picked up such odd jobs as private detective, spieler for a sidewalk photographer. Then she heard "you could go to the University of Chicago without going to high school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Fresh Eggheads | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...varsity will be stronger in several events, especially the pole vault, where freshmen Tom Blodgett and Jack Gougoutas along with Bennett will join Halaby and Dick Williams to make this a possible power event...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Track Team Has Average Season | 5/28/1958 | See Source »

...predict that that picture of Marilyn Monroe in TIME, May 5, will bring the sale of sack dresses to a screeching halt. Hell, that might as well have been Vaughn Monroe. JACK SHERIDAN JOHN HOWBERT Denver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 26, 1958 | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...your May 5 "Titans of Babel": Thank gawd, someone -mainly Elsa Maxwell and Jack Paar -had the nerve (I'd rather say '"guts") to bring that poor-white-trash Walter Winchell down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 26, 1958 | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

Gloria gets paid every time a network commercial is repeated, makes almost $150,000 a year (equaling TV's Jack Paar), lives in Beverly Hills and drives a 1958 Lincoln Continental Mark III. With her four-octave range, which she claims matches the eerie range of Peruvian Vocal Acrobat Yma Sumac, she can take off from low C below middle C and soar to C above high C. But this endowment also drives Gloria to despair: nobody wants to hear her sing straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Offstage Voice | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

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