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When it came to corsets, men feared the worst, hearing tell of a new outline called the "long torso." This sounded like a threat to return to the hideous, bag-shaped style of the '20s, when theflour-sack dress flourished and the straight line conquered all. But it seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Waistline Extended | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

At the Pi Eta Club Andree Lorraine, alias Miss Paris, will watch undergraduate gentlemen strut about on a raised platform and pirouette slowly for the newsreels. She will measure shoulders, hips, and such with a tape.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOLIES BEAUTY WILL CHOOSE MR. HARVARD OF 1940 TODAY | 2/27/1940 | See Source »

One of the most consistent and positive policies of this department for the last four or five years has been an implacable loathing for a Hollywood cutie named Robert Taylor. We have advocated impeachment, abdication, excommunication, even complete abolition. But the time has come for the bugle to call retreat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

Court of Missing Heirs turned up two long-lost heirs apparent, one with a limp, the other with an alias, each with a newsworthy story.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Heirs Apparent | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

Last month Mrs. Riggert heard the Court of Missing Heirs broadcast Carl Henry Proehl's story. Last week Carl Henry Proehl, alias David Barry, now 40, spare & repentant, was on his way to collect his money, promising to use it to assure college educations for his sons, David, 9...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Heirs Apparent | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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