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...Squeak Like Mother's." The role of Fuffy, Judy's disconcerting chum, is also a neat bit of typecasting. She is Beverly Wills, 14, the strident, skinny daughter of strident, skinny Comedienne Joan Davis. Agent Polan vetoed more than 70 candidates before Beverly appeared, but Beverly was worth waiting for. With her mouthful of braces, untameable hair and raucous neigh, she out-fuffied Fuffy. Beverly is "just crazy" about Barbara, is trying to "develop more of a squeak - like my mother's." The program rates her ultimate gush : "I'd listen to it whether I were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Really Sincere | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

...stepped up with a life preserver-with a long string to it. Pleven's proposition: if Schuman would promise to hold early elections (which the Gaullists would probably win), then the Gaullist R.P.F. would support him as an interim, anti-Communist premier. No longer would Schuman have to squeak by with dwindling majorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Painless Transition? | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

Last week Premier Robert Schuman had the narrowest squeak of his three-months career as France's first minister. Annoyed by criticism of one of his deflation measures, doughty M. Schuman had asked for a vote of confidence. He won-by 23 votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Close | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...Close Squeak. In Rochester, N.Y., Elliott T. Baker searched his house from top to bottom for that annoying squeak, finally found it in the clips of his suspenders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 9, 1948 | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...caught between Communist intransigence and the rising strength of Charles de Gaulle, asked for a vote of confidence. The opposition came mainly from the Communists and the far Right. The Socialists and Popular Republicans voted solidly for Ramadier, and a sprinkle of votes from other parties enabled him to squeak through, by 300-to-280. He had gained a little time; the darkening situation made it seem desperately little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: So Little Time | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

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