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...movies kept almost everybody on Pavuvu from going rock-happy. A well-rounded starlet's appearance on the screen brought cries of "Back it up!" Then the operator would oblige by rewinding it and showing the female again. When any heroine displayed signs of falling in love the audience implored: "Don't run off with that bum! Wait till I get home!" One night, men of Headquarters Battalion got so mad at Charles Boyer they threw coral rocks at the screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tales of the Pacific | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Three Hollywood couples who had announced their separations suddenly decided to try it again: Victor ("Beautiful Hunk of Man") Mature and wife Dorothy; Carmen Miranda and Producer-husband Dave Sebastian; World War II Hero Audie Murphy and Starlet-wife Wanda Hendrix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Divorced. Jackie Cooper, 27, onetime cinemoppet (Skippy, The Champ); by June Home Cooper, 30, onetime cinema starlet; after five years of marriage, one child ; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Four undergraduates returned to Cambridge at 4 p.m. yesterday with a tale of failure. The quartet claimed to have reached Philadelphia on their way to Beverly Hills, California, in an effort to bring movie starlet Janet Leigh back to Cambridge for a football game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Students Unable to Snare Leigh | 10/14/1949 | See Source »

...Most annoying is a Winchell rumor that he is using his home-run cash to buy gold trinkets for Monica Lewis, radio's "Chiquita Banana" girl. He flatly denies the gift angle; he just has dates with her, as he does with Dancer Betty Bruce and Hollywood Starlet Peggy Nilsson. At week's end, the chief buccaneer of the Pirates was too busy trying to hit home run No. 53 (which he got against the Cincinnati Reds) to worry about romance. He was also scrambling to protect the runs-batted-in lead (125 so far) that he took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pride of the Pirates | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

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