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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leading actresses, who gets $70 million CN a picture (U.S. $1,400). Li Lihua's role was that of a widow, down to her last dress. She advertises for a husband and gives the impression that she is an heiress. The villain, a wealthy Chinese, reads the ad while in a barber's chair. Fearing his own wife's reactions if he answers it, he persuades the handsome barber to pretend that he is the tycoon, marry the girl, split the profits later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Razor's Edge | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...York Times ad last week, Manhattan's Saks Fifth Avenue ecstatically hailed one of its new styles: "How bewitching to the eye, how becoming to the figure, these lovely elongated lines . . . from a prophetic group of fall silhouettes." Those who glanced at the side view illustration of the new fall silhouette were startled to behold a long-skirted, skinny female with obtruded stomach, her profile resembling a collage of boomerangs and an aged orange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHIONS: Bewitching? | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

Afterthought. In Plymouth, Mass., someone inserted a classified ad in the Guide to Cape Cod offering to swap a twin baby carriage for twin beds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 28, 1947 | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...George's narrow white streets murmured. Harrington Sound's blue-green waters were vexed. Paget's vegetable patches and Somerset's coves were not as peaceful as they looked. The reason was an ad in the Bermuda Royal Gazette. It said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BERMUDA: Grandpa Was a Scotsman | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...Iris Mountbatten, 27, pretty great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, cousin to George VI and Admiral Viscount Mountbatten, was back to shirtsleeves. Since arriving in the U.S. last October, her blonde ladyship has lent her name to a line of Indian textiles, to a dancing school, to a chewing-gum ad ("[Gum] is the height of good taste"). Now, she announced, she had a job, as plain Miss Mountbatten, in the Manhattan publicity offices of Columbia Pictures Corp., and liked the U.S. so much that she had decided to stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Judgments | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

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