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...Betty was jealous of her sister right from the start," says her mother, who has since remarried and lives in Hollywood not far from Betty. "She was always in my lap, always after affection. She would stand on her head, do cartwheels, yell or do anything to attract attention away from her quieter sister." As the girls grew up, Betty envied Marion her more luxuriant hair and her pretty face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: This Side of Happiness | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

...between those used by Bob Hope and Bing Crosby). She made pressagents tear up her first publicity stills and shoot another set. When she visited the music department and was asked what sort of thing she did, she leaped onto Composer Johnny Mercer's back with a wild yell: "I do something like this. Get it?" She greeted dignified Cecil B. DeMille with "Hiya, dreamboat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: This Side of Happiness | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

...into a banana belonging to Kearns, then desperately tried to make amends by patching it messily with another banana. In the radio and TV gagwriters' vocabulary describing audience reactions to gags, a laugh is the lowest thing on the scale. Then comes the howl. After that they yell, and finally, on rare occasions, they scream. During Young's banana routine, there was no doubt that the studio audience screamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Perfect Schnook | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

...Kennedy, who could have sold the onions for $90,000 six months ago, did not weep over his loss; nor did he yell for price support. He is opposed to price supports of any kind. With a self-reliance that would shock many a Farm Bloc Congressman, Republican Kennedy asked last week: "Why should any one group pay another group support prices or anything else? It always makes me tired to hear of the Government doing this or that. The Government don't have any money unless it takes it away from you or me first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Onions Without Tears | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

...obliging stranger threw an arm around his shoulder, pointed up-and sure enough, Dario thought he discerned a white globelike shape floating by. When his gaze returned earthward, he saw the stranger disappearing around the corner. Dario slapped the pocket where his wallet had been and began to yell: "Policia, policia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Pies in the Sky | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

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