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...corner of the ultramodern glass and stone library, a group of Indian warriors in full headdress proffered bunches of cigars. There was a dumpy "Punch," a tailor's gentleman in checked coat and torpedo beard, a handsome mermaid from the stern of an old sailing ship and a jaunty figure labeled "Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines" extolling "World's Fair Cut Plug -Five Cents." Said a student engineer: "This is the kind of art I can appreciate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Vanishing American | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

...mermaid whose picture had blossomed in almost every paper in the U.S., it was very humiliating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: After Trudy | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...Mermaid & Dragon. Runners-up to these leaders are Pixie Playtime, on Manhattan's WPIX, featuring Peter W. Pixie, assisted by a Mae West-like mermaid and a witch who tortures victims by telling them old radio jokes; Little Bordy, a puppet disc jockey; the Suzari Marionettes on ABC's The Singing Lady; Du Mont's woodenheaded Oky-Doky; and Mr. Do-Good and Judy Splinters, a pair of West Coast contenders. Du Mont's popular Small Fry Club, which has previously depended on animated cartoons, movies and interminable commercials, is next week adding to its cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Stars on Strings | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...break of your life. I want you to play Sophie in The Razor's Edge." Betty knew that it was a part for an actress (it won Anne Baxter an Oscar) and not for her. She coolly refused it. "People would expect me to end up as a mermaid and rise with seaweed in my hair," she said, "and that wouldn't be very good for your picture, would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Living the Daydream | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

Scripter-Producer Nunnally Johnson has a pleasant wit, but in this show, most of the time, it is only working in second gear; and at best, he is no magician. In simple justice, the question arises: Would anyone know, any better, what to do with a mermaid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 16, 1948 | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

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