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...Nineteen-year-old Frederick Cecil Bartholomew's noggin, once famed for its curls in his days as a child cinemactor, has been "G.I." for three months. In Amarillo, Tex., British-born Bartholomew got the U.S. citizenship his army time entitled him to seek. Asked by girl reporters if he had made any other pledges, the First Class Private answered: "No. I'm safe for a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 21, 1943 | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

...guesses as to what was behind Jerry Land's tactless talk, best guess was that he was plain tired of being needled. Like a bear with bees buzzing around its noggin, he had struck out wildly. His cronies were agreed that he was not thinking of N.M.U. or any other union; he was just plain mad-at newspaper talk about shipyard loafing, at union squabbles between Joe Curran's N.M.U. and the Seafarers' International Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tactless Talk | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

Presiding at a fashion show in the great style capital of Los Angeles, cherubic, curly-headed Mayor Fletcher Bowron grabbed one of the snakier hats, mounted it on the magisterial noggin, looked pleasant for the cameraman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 24, 1941 | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

...Sacramento, Calif., a ring fell from the sky upon Mrs. Anna Briggs, raised a bump on her noggin. Over Sacramento in a plane, Dr. W. Stanley was frantic because the ring had been a gift from Theodore Roosevelt. To Mrs. Briggs, of whom he heard by radio, Dr. Stanley few days later gave $325 and a trip to the New York World's Fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Fall | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...halls in mind when in one of his letters, he let drop this pearl of wisdom. Yet had be written in just after some Beef a la Dutch had been dropped down his lordly neck without so much as an "I beg your pardon," or a request for another noggin of milk had been answered by a noncommittal noise in the throat, his remark could not have been more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMEDY OF MANNERS | 5/14/1935 | See Source »

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