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Word: sisterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Rosalind Russell has proved the experts wrong again, she finds TIME's approach different from that of anyone else who has ever interviewed her. Recently, when her sister phoned her at her hotel suite, she explained her abrupt manner by saying: "You see, I'm living with TIME magazine people. In fact, they're here now." And she has been hearing ever since from various people who have been interviewed by TIME correspondents: the girl who lived next door in Waterbury, Conn., her mother, brother, sisters, many of her associates, and an old schoolteacher, who called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 30, 1953 | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

Honest Exuberance. Wonderful Town is a simple musical fable about two venturesome Ohio sisters who invade Manhattan. One (Edith Adams) has a come-hither eye; the other (Rosalind Russell) has a go-to manner. Based on the humorous New Yorker short stories by Ruth McKenney, the show has had a long dramatic history: it was a 1940 Broadway hit as My Sister Eileen, starring this year's Oscar-winning Shirley Booth (see CINEMA). Rosalind made the movie version in 1942 and has played the role of Ruth in a dozen radio broadcasts. Though always successful, the show was never...

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

...family dinner table, Ros sat opposite a buffet mirror and practiced crossing her eyes and making the faces that she had found surefire in attracting her father's attention. She played billiards on the third floor with her brothers, and harmonized in the music room with her sisters. She beat out hot rhythms on her brother's trap drum and played aggressive solos on kazoo, ukulele and banjo. She admired and envied her stately older sister Clara ("The Duchess"), and made life both miserable and exciting for her younger sisters, Mary Jane and Josephine. Mary Jane recalls...

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

...married to Actor Barton MacLane), and chummed with Nedda Harrigan (now married to Producer-Director Joshua Logan). She also had time to investigate a phenomenon that had been puzzling her for some time: why, she wanted to know, did men swarm around girls like her two friends and her sister Clara, and not around a girl like Rosalind Russell? "What do I do wrong?" she asked Charlotte Winters. After a thoughtful pause, Charlotte replied: "Ros, you just talk too much...

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

Entering the men's novice competition will be Charles Foster '56, whose sister, Sidney Foster, Radcliffe '54, will team with Frank Nelson '55 in the silver dance competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six Students Entered In Three Main Events Of Ice Skating Meet | 3/26/1953 | See Source »

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