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...plays a boastful but timorous character, who is a butt for everybody's gibes. He is badgered by Tenor Dennis Day, by Orchestra Leader Phil Harris, by Announcer Don Wilson, by Miss Livingstone-and by his valet Rochester. The Bennys have been married since 1927, have a six-year-old adopted daughter named Joan Naomi. Benny calls his wife "Doll"; she calls him "Dollface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jell-O's Dollface | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...might not go as Maine goes, but Maine would keep right on going its own way. One of the earliest men to settle there was Richard Nason who arrived in Kittery before 1639. Toward the end of the last century, Grandmother Jane Nason Tibbets used to take six-year-old Grandson Kenneth Roberts on her knee, tell him bedtime stories about Indian massacres-burning villages, murdered and mutilated men; women and little children trudging through the deep snow and the dark forests to Montreal while their captors, with scalps dangling and dripping at their belts, knocked on the head anybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Angry Man's Romance | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...Fishbein was not a member of the committee which was to study six-year-old Lina Medina of Peru and her 15-month-old baby boy. That committee has disbanded "until methods can be developed for financing such study without public exhibition of the children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 9, 1940 | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

...long trousers and bowler hat to visit his offspring with becoming dignity. He had indeed performed the . . . impossible, for it is an 'irrebuttable presumption' of English law that a boy under 14 cannot procreate a child." Next week the world's youngest mother, six-year-old Lina Medina of Peru, and her 15-month-old baby boy (TIME, May 29, 1939) are expected to arrive in Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Young Mothers | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

...elements which oppose the imposition of Avila Camacho were willing to see the labor blow-up go sky high. And that was a danger last week. If labor fell down on the Government, the Government would have to fall back on the Army. Once again the six-year-old NEW Revolution wabbled between the mastery of the State and the labor unions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Union v. State | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

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