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...show-stealer is Tinker Bell, Peter Pan's lustrously blonde playmate. On the stage, Tinker Bell has usually been depicted as a flicker of light. (In the earlier movie version, she was an automobile headlight bulb decorated with tinsel, and manipulated with a fluttery movement on the end of a fishing pole.) Through the magic of the animated cartoon, she is a bosomy little vamp, not much bigger than a dot of light, who flits about enchantingly with a silvery tinkle of bells in a sprinkle of golden pixie dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 2, 1953 | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...self-taught trombone player, he also gave lessons. Combining his musical and mechanical talents, he invented an auto horn that worked off the exhaust and tootled several musical notes. He called it the Gabriel Horn, founded the Gabriel Manufacturing Co., and made $150,000. Then he began to tinker with a shock absorber for autos. One day he was on a boat approaching a dock. As he now recalls it, his attention was directed by his secret partner "to a workman who was wrapping a rope around a pile, snubbing the boat." It gave him the idea for the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHILANTHROPY: The Secret Partner | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

...department. He gets his fun shooting deer with a few old cronies from the Chowder & Marching Society. But he sends his boy & girl to Eastern schools to sap up "assurance." His kids baffle Jeff. Why did Tom become a commercial artist instead of coming into the business? Why does Tinker feel Gateway is dreary, her family "common"? Jeff yearns for the simple days of bathtub gin and Coolidge prosperity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Latter-Day Babbitt | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

Northeastern started to reach Webb in the third inning. With two away, second baseman Tinker Connolly singled to left and came all the way around when Andy Allan's drive to left took a bad bounce between Akillian and Foynes...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: Nine Trips Northeastern, 6-4, on Last Inning Rally | 5/24/1951 | See Source »

...government's program for organizing benevolence from Whitehall­Sir Charles knows his way around a bureaucracy. But Armitage feels obsolete. "All now was duty, nothing was love," Author Bentley has him reflect. "He was called vermin by a Cabinet Minister and told he did not matter a tinker's cuss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yorkshire Contrasts | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

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