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...ever matched the pulling power of British Cartoonist Norman Pett's Jane (see cut), the uninhibited comic-stripper who got her start during the war by entrancing British troops, as a sort of Miss Lace without lace or much of anything else. Jane manages to get down to bra and panties at least once a week in London's tabloid Daily Mirror. Fleet Street agrees that she is the only strip that actually boosts a paper's sales. Yet Jane flopped in the U.S. last year: "I'm afraid," said a British syndicate salesman, "that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Such Language | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

Patrice Munsel, 20-year-old Metropolitan Opera soprano, was the principal tea leaf in a teapot tempest of publicity just before she made her West Coast debut at Hollywood Bowl. The United Press reported the Met aswoon with shame because pictures had been published of her in a bra-suit. Manager Edward Johnson denied it, peered at the picture, purred, "She looks nice." Clucked Singer Munsel: "I thought it made me look a little bulky in spots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 30, 1945 | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

...Ornito in Italy Sir Walter laboriously helped a badly wounded colonel, far bigger than himself, across a thousand yards of rocky ground under heavy fire to an aid station. At the islands of Solta, Mljet and Braĉ off the Dalmatian coast his "utter contempt for artillery and mortar fire had a very valuable and steadying effect and won for him the respect and devotion of the men of the Commandos" -as well it might. Heirless Sir Walter was old enough to be their grandfather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: MEN AT WAR: Utter Contempt | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

Australia is almost as big as the U.S.; it has almost the population of New York City (the sheep population almost equals the U.S. human population). From Canberra (pronounced Can-bra), near Sydney on the east coast, to Perth out west is 2,400 miles. Just the fringes of Australia are inhabited; the southeast, particularly, and a little around Perth on the west coast (big-timber country) and at Darwin up north in the tropics, then down the east coast to Brisbane where urban living starts again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Journey Into the World | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

Pink Sitter. Natural bravado has seen modest, round-faced, contralto-voiced Frances Langford through a routine that would have ruined lesser women. She has ranged heartily from woolen underwear in Alaska to a halter-bra in Africa. During...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: G.I. Nightingale | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

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