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Dickie Savage's schoolmate meant it when he exclaimed: "You are a lucky beast; I'd love to have exciting parents like that." Dickie's mother was the great actress, Naomi Savage-beautiful, talented, unpredictable. His father, Max Town, was one of the world's most famous writers. Dickie saw dad's pictures in the papers; his novels were everywhere; and everything he said was taken seriously by serious people throughout the world. But there was one great drawback to being the son of Naomi and Max: they were not married and never had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life with Genius | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

Born. To Joan Naomi Benny, 20, adopted daughter of Comedians Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone, and Seth Baker, 27, Manhattan stockbroker: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Michael. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 25, 1955 | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

...afternoon wore on, quietus got an "o," badinage became batonage, and a youngster blurted g-y-r-o-c . . . for gyroscopic and with a despairing cry ("I missed it!") sat down. By 5 p.m. only three contestants were left. Quincunx,'' shot the pronouncer at Naomi Klein of the Yeshiva of Flatbush school (Brooklyn, N.Y.)-and then there were only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: No. 49 | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

Second prize, an award of $25, went to Naomi Ellenbogen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Potter Wins Contest For Best Short Story | 5/19/1954 | See Source »

Married. Joan Naomi Benny, 19 adopted daughter of Comedians Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone; and Seth Baker, 26, Manhattan stockbroker; she for the first time, he for the second; in an evening ceremony, followed by a mammoth, $50,000 reception where some 600 guests (including Ethel Merman, Tyrone Power, Bob Hope) consumed 420 bottles of champagne, 700 Ibs. of squab, 600 Ibs. of beef tenderloin; in Beverly Hills, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 22, 1954 | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

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