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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The U.S. Treasury finally got around to the tentative listing of the nation's top wage-earners for 1946.* Cinemagnate Charles P. Skouras (for the second straight year) led the field with $985,300. Other movie folk in the top ten: Director William (The Best Years of Our Lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 12, 1948 | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

Tiara-bearing Betty Henderson, 72, antic favorite of Manhattan society columnists (she's the one who hoisted her leg on to a table at the opera opening last fall), wore a bandaged hand after a recreational workout at Packey O'Gatty's Gym. She busted it hoisting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Coming & Going | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

The women graduates out-read the men by a wide margin, at least as far as bestsellers are concerned. Last year's far-&-away favorite (read by 48.1% of the men and 72% of the women) was Betty MacDonald's The Egg and I. Most-read magazines of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: That College Look | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

Dream Girl (Paramount) was a highly successful stage comedy that Elmer Rice wrote for his talented wife, Betty Field. It is about a working girl who runs an unsuccessful bookshop and has a crush on her brother-in-law. She escapes from these annoying realities in a series of glamorous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 5, 1948 | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

For the screen, this unpretentious yarn has been given standard Hollywood treatment, i.e., the daydreamer is now an heiress and her moderately subtle character is interpreted, with full brass, by rambunctious Betty Hutton. Playing her bookish boy friend, Macdonald Carey behaves more like the president of the Junior Chamber of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 5, 1948 | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

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