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Kidd (Charles Laughton) buries a treasure chest, sails a King's ship into Madagascar waters, knocks off a number of chiseling colleagues, and at long last gets the halter while young lovers Randolph Scott and Barbara Britton make for the altar. All this and more is accomplished without teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 15, 1945 | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

Bran Flakes & Kisses. The temperature was a chilly 46° when the Tigers and Cubs squared off for their big tea party last week. What followed was enough to give any big-league manager chills & fever. No exceptions were Chicago's banjo-strumming Charlie ("Jolly Cholly") Grimm and Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: TNT & Trumps | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

Jolly Cholly, an extrovert who exudes cheer and carries a banner of hilarity, inwardly is one of baseball's greatest worriers, a man who doesn't sleep well when things go bad. He slept fine after the first game. Solid Steve O'Neill, who does his worrying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: TNT & Trumps | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives, 36, a jolly, round (270 Ibs.) "git-tar"-strumming balladeer, sang it on the radio, in nightclubs, on records and on Broadway (Sing Out, Sweet Land!). He made it a hit, and it helped make him one. He called it an "insect song," just one of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Blue-Tail Fly | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

Chiang Kai-shek's grandson received a present from Joseph Stalin. It was a jolly gesture of good will from the man who had just decided to back grandfather against the Chinese Communists (see INTERNATIONAL). The present: a pistol.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Chosen Few | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

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