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Fradd reassures timid members of '54 that if they have any personal or religious reasons for not wanting to strip for the camera, they may pose in their undergarments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: See Big Flesh Shortage | 9/1/1950 | See Source »

...Most of timid, inefficient Betty's jobs were as dull in the doing as they are in the telling. And she was a failure at most of them. After ten years at night school studying shorthand, she felt that she deserved "some kind of medal for being the slowest-witted, most-unable-to-be-taught and longest-attender-at-school-studying-one-subject." Then one day sister Mary told her to write a bestseller. Result: The Egg and I the $49.50 pumps and $100,000 from movie rights alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Eggs | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

...Viet Nam side, Bao Dai's timid government has put some muscle into its administration. This week two strong men with contrasting backgrounds-one has worked with the Communists, the other always against them-were filling new jobs. But both brought the same message: the Communists, they said, were very tough people, and to beat them one had to be tougher still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: Terror | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

Tomboy's one friend is Mick, the most timid boy in the gang. When he is killed in a robbery, Tomboy is left alone in a world of fear and violence. At the novel's end, she is hopping a freight car to get away from the police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big-City Documentary | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

...strong. The calves of her legs . . . indicate . . . that for years she has gone from place to place on bicycles . . . She is not consumptive, like Mimi . . . She does as she likes . . . When she takes a fancy to a poor young man . . . it is not the modern Mimi who will be timid or afraid. It will be Rudolph, if anyone, who trembles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 29, 1950 | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

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