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LIKE Fred MacMurray, another successful ex-ex- coollegian in Hollywood, Pinky Tomlin got a fair start at the higher learning, but tunes and rhythms kept running through his head in the classroom, and he ended up by having only a fraternity shingle to show for his academic days. MacMurray and Tomlin now have about $1000,000 apiece--a very disconcerting fact to Ph.D. a who stuck it out--and didn't have any tones to plague them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tunes, Scripts Plagued Them in, College--And Still Do | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

...cleverly redecorated and shot from new angles. (Boyer's apartment in Shanghai is the penthouse in Smart Girl; the Stock Exchange bar. the New York cafe.) Smart Girl was previewed six times before its official Hollywood unveiling in an effort to decide whether Pinky Tomlin ought to sing or not. Finally his song was removed but his jackass laughter and owlish solemnity as the milliner's Dummkopf of a son were left in with happy results. He is in real life an Oklahoma crooner who arrived in Hollywood five months ago with $100 in his pocket, half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 5, 1935 | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

...final matches in the Newport invitation tournament; 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 in the singles against his Davis Cup teammate Wilmer Allison; 6-8, 13-11, 8-6, 6-2 in the doubles, paired with Keith Gledhill, against Allison and John Van Ryn, U. S. champions. ¶ Fred Tomlin, professional trapshooter of Glassboro. N. J.: the Open Championship in the Grand American trapshooting tournament; with a perfect score of 200 targets at a 16-yd. rise; at Vandalia. Ohio. Frank Troeh of Portland, Ore. won the shoot-off for second place against three other shooters who had tied with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Aug. 29, 1932 | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

Ingenious methods were proposed for detecting delinquents, punishments were pondered. Dinnertime neared but Baron Tomlin of Ash, Chairman of the Commission, reserved his opinion, conducted the debate on the highest plane of British parliamentary procedure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Women & Rubbish | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

When Anne India gave birth to a son conceived in the triumph of Cousin Tomlin's demise, her husband implored the doctor to let it die. For baby Rex had a little horn above his left ear. But Rex was not allowed to die. He was cherished and guided from squalling infancy to wobbly-kneed childhood, to brooding, weak-stomached youth; and from the path of his progress Anne cast aside all obstacles. "The world was made for well people to live in," she had cried when she heard of Tomlin's death. Now she said: "If meat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: One Man's Meat | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

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