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...this everything, M.G.M.'s Lady Be Good has salvaged only two of the Gershwin melodies: the title song and Fascinating Rhythm. Around these still glittering butterfly relics three studio scripters (Jack McGowan, Kay Van Riper, John McClain) have spun one of the longest, dullest plots in many a cinema season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 29, 1941 | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...Louis, Wilma McClain Kirby, 13, divorced her 18-year-old husband. The child charged nonsupport. The boy replied that his wife had nagged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: War | 5/6/1935 | See Source »

...John McClain, New York Sun ship newshawk, thus reported his interview with Samuel Insull Jr. arriving on the S. S. Majestic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 21, 1932 | 11/21/1932 | See Source »

...Omoolu's compatriots in Africa, according to John McClain, the New York Sun's shipnews reporter who press-agented the picture while it was being made, were of a much happier disposition. When rushes of the film were shown on safari, the natives rolled on the ground with laughter, regardless of the nature of the sequence. At Rhino Town, on the White Nile, Pressagent McClain came upon a tribe of natives all naked save that one of them sported a neat, snap-brim brown hat. Removing the hat, Mr. McClain was surprised to find the label: Brooks Bros.,? Madison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 2, 1931 | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

Keenie Wagner, alias Harvey Logan, alias "Texas Slim," confessed killer of deputy-sheriff Mclntosh at McClain, Miss.; of two police officers at Kingsburg, Tenn., wagged garrulously of the $3,000 reward on his capture as Sheriff Lillie put him in a county cell. Asked why he surrendered, "Texas Slim" said: "The novelty.... I never gave up to a woman before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Aug. 30, 1926 | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

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