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...actresses (including Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer and Paulette Goddard) in The Women, Rosalind Russell is the one usually best remembered by the millions who saw the picture. She became firmly established as the idol of a generation of less-than-beautiful movie-going girls who had to use smart clothes and bright chatter to lure men away from more luscious-looking females...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Comic Spirit | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

Full Explanation. In Cleveland, Mrs. Norma Peden told a divorce court that when she asked her husband to explain a package of love letters from a nightclub entertainer, he laughed, said: "This is a modernistic world," and broke a mirror over her head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 6, 1952 | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

...Crimson Pirate (Norma Production; Warner) is a jaunty take-off on just about every pirate picture ever made. Burt Lancaster, swinging from a ship's mast during the credit titles, gets matters off to a gay start by advising the audience to "ask no questions-believe what you see," and then, with a wink: "No-believe only half of what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 15, 1952 | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

Peggy always trusted her instinct in such matters, and it kept her close to the big time for a dozen years, while V-2-type careers were exploding all around her. She was singing before she could talk properly, back in Jamestown, N.Dak., where she was born Norma Egstrom 32 years ago. Eventually, she got up the nerve to give Hollywood a teen-age whirl, got a singing job at $2 a night, but soon landed back home with an overstrained throat that required five operations. After that, she had to learn to sing softly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Singer with Instinct | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

Organization for the Bazaar is being handled by Norma Glazer '54 and Grace Kennan '54, Community Service fund raising co-chairmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Grant-in-Aid Fund to Receive Profits From Traditional May Day Bazaar on Quad | 4/22/1952 | See Source »

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