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...gives him the look of a village deacon, might detract from the glamor to be associated with a dashing entrepreneur of naked floor shows, Paramount suggested that Carroll wear a wig in the picture. Carroll refused, explained: "A bald-headed boulevardier has more appeal for women than any clumsy youngster, no matter how well covered is his scalp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 16, 1940 | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...home is only about a stone's throw from the Yale Bowl--in the same direction he was heading on that 78 yard punt return last Saturday. As a grammer school youngster, he used to watch the big Blues go through their afternoon workouts and hope for a chance to toss around a stray football. Now he has been taken out of the Elis' own back yard to be the Crimson grid captain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lee Named Captain of 1941 Senior-Studded Eleven; Excelled in Role of Safety Man and Pass Defender | 11/27/1940 | See Source »

...Milton Isra Levine tells children how babies come. Ten years ago, when he started, he went through the old, old rigmarole about the bees and flowers. A twelve-year-old asked: "When are you going to come to the point?" Dr. Levine promptly sat down and had the youngster tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Telling the Children | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

When the Soviet Union adopted its new Constitution four years ago, it provided free schooling for every qualified youngster from kindergarten through university. In Russia's 550 colleges, students got not only free tuition but a salary of 100 to 200 rubles ($20 to $40) a month. Last week a Government decree changed the Constitution: high-school and college students were required to pay tuition. Rates: from 150 to 400 rubles a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Soviet Tuition | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

...Famed is Comic Roberto Soto for his feat of kidding Calles' Labor Boss Luis Morones out of office. An oldster now, Soto's wit is not so sharp as it used to be, and he has been supplanted in favor by a thin, big-eyed, loose-jointed youngster of 28, who was christened Mario Moreno, is known throughout Mexico today as Cantinflas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Cantinflas | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

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