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...camera - wrapped it in a bear hug and wrestled it to submission - like Betty Hutton. They called this 40s singer-actress "the Blitzkrieg blond" for an energy that would make Rachael Ray seem logy by comparison. Film critic James Agee, and other scribes at TIME, described her variously as "rubber-jointed," "brass-lunged," "super-dynamic," "bouncing, bawling," "raucous, rampageous." To Bob Hope she was "a vitamin pill with legs." She seemed to have swallowed a truckload full of them before every performance; she was indomitable, unstoppable, the Fuller Brush flack with a quick smile, a faster line of patter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Betty Got Frank | 3/31/2007 | See Source »

...could not accompany the delegation because of her teaching duties as a professor of comparative religion and Indian studies. Bell makers from the Vera Bell Foundry visited Lowell House in February and used a centuries-old process known as lost-wax casting in order to make rubber moldings of the bells, which they brought back to Russia and used to make the casts for the replacements. The original bells came to Lowell in 1930, when American industrialist Charles R. Crane donated them to the University. He had purchased them in Russia, where Stalin was closing all of the churches...

Author: By Brian J. Bolduc, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lowell Plans Return of Bells | 3/19/2007 | See Source »

...compendium of Delta blues both new and old, running the gamut from Son House to the North Mississippi Allstars. The trailer itself features “When The Lights Go Out,” a great track from The Black Keys’ 2004 album “Rubber Factory...

Author: By Nathaniel Naddaff-hafrey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Everybody’s Preachin’ the Blues | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...thanks to Sanino that the Atmosphere is so ecosavvy. He sent back the six jet boats used for fishing to have silencers fitted, and ordered a smaller propeller for the Navy SEALs-issue rubber rib boat and a quieter helicopter. To many though, the mere presence of a helicopter in Patagonia amounts to a green sin. Ergas' response? He quotes the late Australian wildlife expert Steve Irwin: "'My responsibility is to show people nature, because then they will fall in love with it. And only if you love something will you try to protect it.' In years to come, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Due South | 3/7/2007 | See Source »

...Police asked for a search warrant after a hiker in a nearby park not far from the Grant home found a plastic bag with rubber gloves, blood stains and metal shavings and brought it to the sheriff's department, says Hackel. Grant's husband Stephen had appeared frequently on local television after his wife's disappearance pleading for her return. But after police discovered the his wife's remains hidden in the garage, Grant fled to northern Michigan, where he was later found wandering shoeless in a snowed-in wooded area. As he was treated for frostbite, Grant admitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Detroit, Rich Crime, Poor Crime | 3/5/2007 | See Source »

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