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...Beard, Errol Flynn dallies with some dusky harem girls, but the script steers mercifully clear of a love story, and even Flynn takes a back seat to the boy. Kim is still the India-born British orphan who has grown up as a sun-bleached native urchin in the clutter of Lahore. His best friends: a wandering Tibetan lama (Paul Lukas) and Horse Trader Flynn, who doubles as a spy. Recognized by the British, who pack him off to a pukka school, Kim plays hooky, picks up some tutoring in espionage and pits his wits against the Russians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 11, 1950 | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...Manhattan, London Hairdresser Raymond boasted that he had recently given the Duchess of Windsor a new hairdo that would sweep the country: a design called "the tutored urchin look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Specialist's Eye | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

Tennis Player Gertrude ("Gorgeous Gussie") Moron, whose lengthy pigtails have become almost as famous as her lace panties, shocked her admirers by appearing at the London airport with a "sort of an overgrown urchin cut." Explained Gussie: "They were getting on my nerves. I got up this morning and there was my hair down the back of my neck. So I got out my scissors and snipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: The Hemisphere, Jul. 17, 1950 | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

...incident: Billy the Kid, the Hero, is swaggering down the main drag when he sees a callow youth having his troubles whittling out the inside of a wooden whistly. Billy tells him to hold out the whistle and then blasts a hole in it with his .45. Says the urchin, "Gosh, Billy, when...

Author: By Donlad Carswell, | Title: The Outlaw | 1/13/1950 | See Source »

Director Levy is now conducting a frantic search for a "retired soft-shoe artist out to make a fast buck" to teach Rettenberg a passable routine, He says that urchin street-dancers, "if they have a flair," might be considered as a last resort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams Seeks Soft Shoe Man | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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