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...Credited with being the largest single contributor to the Associated Willkie Clubs was blonde & buxom Betty Winsor, wife of Philadelphia Socialite Curtin Winsor, ex-wife of Elliott ("I Want To Be a Captain") Roosevelt. Said Mrs. Winsor: "I am still devoted to Mrs. Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: The Big Noise | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

...scampers mischievously through vari-hued sultans' palaces, grapples with monsters, summons a towering genie, flies over the top of the world, blows up the Grand Canyon and brings love to the lives of slim, handsome Ahmad (John Justin, now a pilot with the R. A. F.) and the buxom, slant-eyed Princess (June Duprez). The sinister forces are led by Conrad Veidt, who conjures up more dire magic and dirty treachery than the screen has seen since Dracula...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Latest Labors | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

...opening day's medal round was all California's. The three hot-shots who broke 80 were all natives: San Francisco's buxom Dorothy Traung, Burlingame's Bunny Fergus Russ, Long Beach's Betty Hicks. Though these front runners faltered in the early rounds of match play, five Californians were still there among the eight quarter-finalists; and two of them among the four semifinalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ladies at the Beach | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

First to go to work on each program's prospective Cinderella is Make-up Man Willis. To girls with buck teeth and freckles, to elderly ladies with grizzled hair, to buxom young things with fat red cheeks and curves too voluminous, he points out cosmetic errors, boldly proposes new hairdos, new foundations. Sample Willis ukase: "Using a rose-tan powder foundation cream will do a blending job. But it won't hide freckles. In order to hide your freckles we'd have to make you as dark as an Indian and all the sparkle would be gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Aid for the Homely | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

...whose meeting house is supposed to be the only early building in the U. S. with a barrel roof, has been sold. The rest is for sale. But its dozen or so oldsters stay on. The sisters wear the bonnets, severe dresses and cloaks of their predecessors. Buxom Sister Lillian makes fine chairs. Frail, nearly toothless Elderess Sarah Collins, 85, putters among her souvenirs, cackles affably, with many a "yea" and "nay," makes and sells braided rugs. She is one of the orphans who stuck with the Shakers. When a visitor last week remarked on the variety of Shaker work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Shaker Art | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

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