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Word: mabell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...courtyard sports a fresh coat of off-white paint and new chintz curtains. Technicians are ready to fit out a complete delivery room in one wing if, as anticipated, the 33-year-old Queen decides to have the baby in Buckingham Palace. And the daughter of a Merseyside policeman, Mabel Anderson, taken on as an assistant nanny at Charles' birth because she was the "only applicant not shivering with nerves," has already been appointed the baby's nanny. If the newest member of the royal family turns out to be a boy, he will be second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pink or Blue? | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Well Adjusted? The man who turns out such iridescent pap has also given the Paar show many of its permanent gags, including the bit in which balls of various size talk to each other (a pingpong ball will say to a golf ball: "Mabel, you've really got to give up sweets"). A lanky (5 ft. 11½ in., 170 Ibs.) man with a face like a TV portrait of Dorian Gray, Douglas privately fights a hopeless battle against his reputation as a way-out zany, claims he is just an ordinary, well-adjusted gag writer. He admits having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Toynbee Doob's Pal | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...look so tired. Do go take a nap now." "Charlotte, we simply have to go to Boston and get you some decent clothes." Charlotte (Jean Simmons) has just come home from a mental hospital, where she has spent a year and undergone eight applications of electroshock, and her stepmother (Mabel Albertson) is determined to do her duty by the unfortunate creature-no matter how unpleasant it may be for both of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 10, 1958 | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

...Died. Mabel Wolfe Wheaton, 68, sister of Novelist Thomas Wolfe, gently satirized as Eugene Gant's man-tall, tormented sister Helen in Look Homeward, Angel, who at her death was collaborating with Author LeGette Blythe on a book that she claimed would at last set the family record straight; of complications from diabetes; in Asheville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 13, 1958 | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

...Counsel Bernard Schwartz (TIME, Feb. 24) of trying to swing FCC decisions through his membership by marriage in "the White House clique." Colonel Moore, a crisp and courtly Texan, was born in Galveston, educated at St. Mary's Seminary (Roman Catholic) at La Porte, Texas, in 1940 married Mabel Frances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: New Kind of Shock | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

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