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U.S. radio comedy leans heavily on dumb-belles. Last week, in the artfully stumbling footsteps of Gracie Allen, Jane Ace and other attractive dunderheads, a blonde newcomer was malapropping her way to the top. My Friend Irma (CBS, Mon. 10 p.m., E.S.T.), a situation comedy about a dumb stenographer and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Dizzy Blonde | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

The movie leans over backward to be fair to the industry, which insists on making such an indifferent case for itself. Such debatable blessings as America's Town Meeting of the Air and the scripting efforts of Norman Corwin are duly acknowledged, a fair proof of the old saw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 1, 1947 | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

The picture leans a little too much on strained circumstance and unmitigated whimsy, but it has its moments. Shirley, in her climaxes of calf love, sees her hero in shining armor, putting on his helmet exactly as if it were a snap brim. Writer Sidney Sheldon has inserted a bit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Aug. 11, 1947 | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

Lovers. In the snack bar of Frankfurt's Rhein-Main airport, a German girl sits with her G.I. fiancé. He is a slight, blond boy of perhaps 18; she is a blonde, bulging, overbearing, with a broad, white face, narrow, calculating eyes and a smile like the flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No Road Back? | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

As drugstore fiction, this novel fills an even simpler prescription than its profitable predecessor, The Foxes of Harrow (which stayed triumphantly high on the best-seller lists for more than a year, was sold to 20th Century-Fox and grossed Au thor Frank Yerby something like $250,000). The hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scarlet Splash | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

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