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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...judge of beauty, confessed that "all this stuff about my being a picker of pretties is loo-proof malarkey. And the same goes for Ziegfeld, Carroll, White and Goldwyn. . . . Any boy who likes girls can pick them." How to do it for a show: "You put an ad in the paper. . . . Several hundred gals show up. . . . First you eliminate the impossibles. . . . You ask the remaining girls to parade. . . . What do you look for? The same things you look for when you're standing on a windy corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 3, 1947 | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...clearly to U.S. citizens, the Advertising Council's campaign is under way via a series of newspaper and magazine advertisements (the one shown here is titled: Look . . . How Main Street Has Grown!), posters, car cards, billboard sheets, and a campaign guide that has gone out to leading advertisers, ad agencies, leading newspapers, magazines and radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 24, 1947 | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...ElmhirstStraight family, which has patiently paid the New Republic's deficits throughout its 32-year existence. (Rich young Michael Straight is also currently shooting the works to see that the New Republic's new Editor Henry Wallace* gets all that money can buy.) Unlike the ad-lean New Republic, which gives an outward appearance of respectable poverty, U.N. World's So pages were on slick paper, carried plenty of ads, and looked a little like a cross between Business Week and Survey Graphic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Worldly Infant | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...uneasy feeling that this is where he came in. This tendency toward repetition is fostered by the English musicians, many of them known only locally, who get a fixed program of works and then stick to them: Benno Moisewitch, for example, has been playing the Rachmaninoff concerti almost ad nauseum, and Solomon has long had a fixation on the Emperor Concerte...

Author: By Otto A. Friedrich, | Title: The Music Box | 2/15/1947 | See Source »

Fifty-one-year-old Leo Corrigan wedged into Dallas' real-estate market 30 years ago as a want-ad salesman. His first venture was a neighborhood drugstore, built for $10,000 out of savings. It was also one of the few buildings he ever purchased outright. Corrigan's operating motto is: pay as little down as possible, let the .rent do the rest. Also: always build your apartments around a shopping center. As one project began to pay off, he would take out a mortgage to start another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Texas Ranger | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

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