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...week it was a tree bursting into full growth from an acorn planted a moment before. Another time it was a water pail apparently defying the law of gravitation. A regular Garroway feature is his "girl multiplier," that once put 64 identical shots of pert Singer Bette Chapel on the TV screen at one time. Most of the stunts owe their success to a pair of studio carpenters named Weeland Risser and Ralph Doremus,who,in their pre-TV days, happened to work for Magicians Thurston and Blackstone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Magic Carpenters | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

...Dancer Babilée, 27, chose the ballet which first brought him fame, Le Jeune Homme. His role: that of a young artist who is abandoned by his sweetheart. In the violent, Apache-like dances that the ballet calls for, he revolved around his taunting sweetheart (beautifully danced by pert Nathalie Philippart, his wife) with the intensity of an angry bird. His tremendous leaps, over chairs and tables, were sudden darts into the air. Even with its hanging scene, Le Jeune Homme (danced incongruously to the Bach C Minor Passacaglia) was no great ballet. But the fans found plenty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: High Jumper frorn Paris | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

...Technicolored crusade to convert America to the gospels of Culture and Leadership, meanwhile scooting across Europe and sweeping up historical tidbits as with a vacuum cleaner. Lorenzo also sweeps up Olivia. Hayden falls into the eager arms of Roxy Eldritch, a freckled, redheaded home-town girl with a pert tongue, a figure that no man can keep his hands off, and "the voice of a bird flying at dun twilight over the western plains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Valedictory | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

Beverly Baker, 20, a pert, sloe-eyed redhead from Santa Monica, is less singleminded. "I hate the grind of practicing. I don't like living out of a suitcase. In fact, I don't care much for traveling. I like home." But on the court Beverly is all business, takes quiet pride in the fact that she is the only player in big-time tennis who can shift hands for each shot: "I play a gambling game, looking for quick winners. Why drag a match out for two hours if you can get it over with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: New Queen? | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

...George Washington chopped down that tree so he could get a cherry for his Old Fashioned," revealed pert Delphina Brownlee, noted 18th century poetess, last night. In honor of Miss Brownlee, there will be no Crime tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Crime, Forsooth | 2/21/1951 | See Source »

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