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...nephews Lee Adam, who became a broker and met death in an unexplained fall from the ninth floor of the Yale Club; Louis, who resigned to enter Wall Street, is now with hops brokers S. S. Steiner & Co.; and Benedict, present boss of WIP, who married and divorced a Wampus baby star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: To the Old Adam | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

...signed Rita for a dancing bit in a picture Spencer Tracy would like to forget: Dante's Inferno, one of the worst big-budget movies ever made. After the picture she became a Fox Wampus Baby. But at that point Darryl Zanuck breezed in, took over the studio (renamed it 20th Century-Fox), and his new broom swept Rita out. (Mr. Zanuck recently had cause to regret this haste, when he had to pay Columbia a stiff fee to borrow Rita for the role of Seductress Dona Sol in his pale epic. Blood and Sand. Rita and the bull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: California Carmen | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

...most people she continued to look and act like a doll-faced, taffy-haired Wampus cutie, and those who thought about her at all thought of her as Olivia de Havilland's kid sister and the wife of Brian Aherne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Picture: Apr. 15, 1940 | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...going concern from the farmlands of Hickory County, Mo. that had rolled into Hollywood, set up in business as a Wampus Baby Star. Blonde, fetching, standing 5 ft. 1 in her bare feet, weighing 110 Ibs. in her working clothes, Sally Rand, nee Beck, no time showed her business ability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMUSEMENTS: Assets: $8,067 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Exception is hereby taken to the statement made in your Letters column (April 10) by Dean Harrel, Business Manager. U. S. C. Wampus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 24, 1933 | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

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