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...Mother Wore Tights is a rather tepid but likable show. It is at its best during the vaudeville numbers, and there are some pleasant songs (best: Kokomo, Indiana). Brash Dan Dailey (Father) has a personality as sharp and convincing as a breath of stage-door air: he can really sing, really dance and really act. Miss Grable can sing too; her pleasure in playing a generous and happy woman is contagious enough to make up for her shortcomings as an actress. What she can really do, of course, is dance. And she still holds undisputed title to the most gorgeous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 8, 1947 | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

More & more Europeans are saying that these days. It might come as a shock to onetime isolationists in Osakis, Minn, and Kokomo, Ind. to hear such close approximations from the Continent of their 1915 and 1940 arguments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Europe Firsters | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

Osakis and Kokomo, which had learned the lesson of one world, were getting quite a lesson in isolationism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Europe Firsters | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

Breaking Point. In Kokomo, Ind., a divorce was granted to Albert L. Franklin, who testified that he didn't mind so much when his wife threatened him with a knife and beat up his mother, but felt that she went too far when she stole four of his pet rabbits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 17, 1947 | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

Thirty-two other veterans of World War II who left Kokomo before they finished school will get diplomas too. School Superintendent C. V. Haworth, winking a bit at the rules, figures that the knowledge the boys picked up at war is at least the equivalent of a high-school education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: As Good As Graduated | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

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