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...Stauffer, runs a nightclub. Among the items on the block: a collection of fairy tales inscribed "to the beauty from the beast," a faded black lace evening dress with sewn-in falsies, 75 pairs of shoes, 15 fur coats and wraps, two mink stoles (one white, one black), a marshmallow-size emerald ring, four wedding rings-although only three previous husbands can be accounted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: On the Block | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

...pinups, making requests for favorite records and offering her everything from marriage to captured North Korean rifles. Last week a sergeant in Japan called her in Los Angeles to say he was sending an oil painting for her bedroom. Another soldier wrote that she reminded him of "a marshmallow in a cup of hot chocolate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: G.I.s' Disc Jockey | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

Mary Margaret McBride (weekdays, 2 p.m., ABC), after nearly ten years of local broadcasts, again extends her chirrupy gossip and able interviewing (of authors, politicians and entertainers) to housewives from coast to coast. The new program keeps the same old marshmallow and caramel formula: Mary Margaret getting the celebrities to talk, Mary Margaret talking about herself, Mary Margaret cooing ecstatically over such phenomena as Mother Love, Babies, Paths to Success. But, because the show is sponsored cooperatively, listeners will be deprived of her personal plugging of her homemade commercials. Instead, while Mary Margaret remains strangely silent, local announcers take over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The New Shows | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

...courtroom scenes, e.g., when the morbidly curious camera paces Barbara from a cell in the county jail, across a crowded street and up three flights of courthouse stairs to hear the jury's verdict. But taut detail is not enough to prop up the essential fudge-and-marshmallow of character and concept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 6, 1950 | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

...decker for the kids, a washstand and a bureau with a bouquet of flowers, but Alf, his Butlineer's badge pinned proudly to his breast, had little time to admire it all. Three gongs sounded and from overhead came a lady's voice, soft and refined as marshmallow: "This is Radio Butlin. Welcome, campers, it is now 12:45. In 15 minutes lunch will be served...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Having Wonderful Time | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

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