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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Attainable Goal. As Betty herself readily admits, her talents are unremarkable. Unlike some other movie stars, she can lay no claims to sultry beauty or mysterious glamor. Her singing and dancing are pleasant and spirited, but not highly skilled. Her peach-cheeked, pearl-blonde good looks add up to mere candy-box-top prettiness. Even her intensively publicized legs (immortalized in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater, along with Gable's ears and Barrymore's profile) cannot compare in symmetry to Dietrich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Living the Daydream | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...many years I have dealt with the products of our elementary and high school education mills. No longer do I gag over weird English, amateurish spelling, fuzzy thinking and inability to add and multiply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 2, 1948 | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

...expected the steel industry raised prices on its major products last week. U.S. Steel Corp. set the pace with an average boost of $9.34 a ton, and most other steelmakers followed with about the same amount. The increases will add an estimated $575 million a year to the U.S. steel bill, and send up the prices of durable goods all along the line. First to speak up were appliance makers, who predicted substantial price hikes for ranges, refrigerators, washing machines, etc., within four weeks. Yet many an industry, notably the automakers, had hardly finished raising prices to meet the third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRICES: Higher & Higher | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

...authorities watch the incoming flood of misery with a feeling of helpless dismay. The refugees cannot be housed or adequately fed. They add to the misery, starvation and chaos of Nationalist China. In the North, the Reds still tighten the screws, drive more millions on to the bitter roads of China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: 30,000,000 Uprooted Ones | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

Britain's George Millar, whose autobiographical novel Horned Pigeon (TIME, June 10, 1946) was one of the few intelligent consequences of World War II, describes himself as "a weedy young man of slightly effeminate aspect"-neglecting to add that his war record won him the British Distinguished Service Order and Military Cross, the French Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre. With the same misleading modesty he insists that he is merely a "landsman"-but his new book is all about a voyage he made in his 31-ton ketch Truant two years ago, from England to Greece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Keel Over Europe | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

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