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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bell often plays the villain in as many as 16 shows a week; his record is seven in one day. Last week, on "a sort of summer vacation," he did the dirty work in nine, including one soap opera. All this crime pays Bell about $30,000 a year, but he sweats like a stool pigeon for it-twelve hours a day, six days a week.* Even off the air, Bell sounds and looks like a hood just back from escort duty on a one-way ride. With his sneering voice goes a curling lip (with black, headwaiter mustache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hackensack's Shame | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

...church work have often shocked conservatives. He has been branded a cheap sensationalist for his birth-control discussions, marriage clinics and seminars on sex adjustment problems. But his methods seem to work. Out of the nearly 1,000 marriages he has performed during the past twelve years, only nine have ended in divorce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Beloved Fellowship | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

...Besides nine men on the field, Dodger opponents have to reckon with a snarling, hooting, heckling row of benchwarmers. Said Manager Burt Shotton: "I'll tell you how we won the St. Louis series. The bench won it." What the exuberant Dodgers seemed to need is not so much a manager as a father. In mild, 62-year-old Burt Shotton, they have just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Flatbush Cincinnatus | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

...Warsaw, 80 Poles in tattered clothes now crowd into a dingy classroom at the bombed-out university to learn English from Anne. For nine months, she has been the only U.S. teacher at the University of Warsaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Good Teach | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

Died. The Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Cook, 86, who went to work as a pit boy in an English coal mine at the age of nine, later moved to Australia where he was one of the early members of the New South Wales Labor Party, then turned to the Right and rose from the Liberal Party to be Prime Minister of Australia (1913-14); of a heart ailment; in Sydney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 11, 1947 | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

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