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Jack Benny has never forgotten his attempt to be funny on the night, 15 years ago, when George Burns married his partner, Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalia Allen, in Cleveland. Benny's idea of humor was to call up the newlyweds from San Francisco at 3 a.m. He did so and, getting a male voice, inquired, "Hello, George?" The male voice at once barked, "Send up two orders of ham and eggs" and hung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Straight Man | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

Removals. In Rosalia, Wash., H. C. Roberts, who had already got rid of a corn by cutting off his little toe, got rid of another by cutting off his other little toe. In St. Augustine, Fla., somebody finally got the nickels from a Florida East Coast Railway pay toilet by making off with the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 27, 1943 | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

Giuseppe Di Maggio and wife Rosalia, parents of Ballplayers Joe, Dominic, Vince, took out their first citizenship papers after 39 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Bejeweled Hyena | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

...offspring. Her name is Mona and she is a 21-year-old chimpanzee. At Orange Park on June 26, 1933, she gave birth to fraternal twins, male & female. The father was an 11-year-old brought from Africa by a sailor. Mona had spent 15 years on Mme Rosalia Abreu's famed ape farm in Havana, was already mother of three. One of her daughters was the first chimpanzee of dated birth and known parentage to mature sexually (at the age of eight) in captivity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Ape Twins | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

...captain under Madero, Villa captures towns in the north of Mexico whenever he feels like it. He takes Santa Rosalia against the orders of a superior officer. General Pascal (Joseph Schildkraut), to oblige a U. S. newspaperman (Stuart Erwin) who has written the story in advance. To oblige a wench named Rosita (Katherine de Mille, sultry daughter of Producer Cecil Blount de Mille) Villa has the newspaperman conduct a wedding ceremony. When Madero goes to Mexico City, there is no further work for Villa. He gets into a scrape for killing a bank cashier who is slow about cashing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 16, 1934 | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

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