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Eupeptic Ann Sothern, who feels naked without earrings and calls most people "darling" because she is weak on names, will be given a chance to outgrow Maisie. Scheduled for fall release is an elaborate musical, Lady Be Good, in which she plays a lead. Ahead of her are two more, Panama Hattie and Du Barry Was a Lady; then a shot at Spencer Tracy in a picture not yet titled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 18, 1941 | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

When his list of clients began to outgrow the Plan's financial backing last year, Businessman Neuberger reorganized, took second place as vice president, got a businesswoman for president: elderly, pleasant Mrs. Florence McConnell Rogers, Minnesota-born, who used to be an executive assistant to the president of the Bank of the Manhattan Co. No altruistic institution, Tuition Plan pays its way, expects before long to give its small list of stockholders some profit. It hopes to make a bigger dent in colleges next year. Biggest clients thus far: Pennsylvania's Haverford, New York's Hobart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Easy Payments | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

...rivals. Sometimes they may love their fathers too (ambivalence), but the fundamental hostility remains throughout childhood. (Later on girls often fall in love with their fathers.) This Oedipus complex-sets the pattern for a child's response to other persons throughout the rest of his life. Normal persons outgrow the Oedipus situation by the time they reach maturity. But weaker characters cannot tear themselves away from their parents, hence, "fall into neuroses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Intellectual Provocateur | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...Federation but for some of its rich affiliates. Since then he has ably represented the Federation before Congressional committees and NLRB, in so doing has aroused the suspicions of some A. F. of L. executive councilmen, who feel that Attorney Padway's appetite for profitable publicity may outgrow the bounds befitting a hired hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Fresh Butter | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...twelve his son Robert announced he would be a poet. E. W. Scripps thought he would outgrow it, gave the boy a newspaper training, and suddenly installed him at 21 as editor-in-chief of the Scripps papers. In 1922, E. W. Scripps picked a selfmade Hoosier, Roy Wilson Howard, then chairman of United Press, gave him to Son Robert as a partner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Journalistic Dynasty | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

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