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Cast Anchor! At the age of 14, Madame Guillet treated her first patient. It was her mother's seamstress, an anemic, timid and depressed creature. "After three or four readings of vigorous poetry," Madame Guillet said, "she became so cocky I could hardly bear her company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In a High Wind | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

Free: A study of a successful but convention-bound man too timid to leave the wife he has never loved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Slippery, Protean Everything | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...excellent as the Worcester girl's forthright father; and Peggy Cummins (who won and then lost the lead in Forever Amber) is a very pretty though not very Bostonian daughter. The real star of the show is an ex-Quiz Kid named Vanessa Brown who, as the timid cousin Richard Ney doesn't want to marry, suggests an early Janet Gaynor or a younger Ingrid Bergman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 31, 1947 | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

There are few men in the land who can outdrive husky Babe Didrikson; she once slammed a ball 408 yards, averages an amazing 240. But the Babe contributes more to ladies' golf than just swat: she is a crowd-puller. Unlike most women golfers, who are timid before an audience, the Babe in her showmanship is as subtle as a punch on the nose. When she spotted a photographer trying to take her picture, she yelled, "I'm not so bad that you have to have your thumb over the lens, am I?" At Orlando, she quipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Whatta Woman | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

Sweetheart had broken down the day before and the Chicoys had given up their beds to the passengers overnight. Most important and most irritated passengers were Mr. Pritchard, a corporation executive from Chicago; his wife; and their daughter, Mildred. Mr. Pritchard was neat, pompous and timid; Mrs. Pritchard sweet, sexless and tyrannical; Mildred hated them both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Repent! | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

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