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...just moved into a new home on the ocean, after months by herself in a cottage in a canyon. The canyon had been bad. "I was alone," she explained. "I was terrified. But I just pretended I wasn't there. ..." The white-haired Queen Dowager of the Royal Family denied a report that she had signed a seven-year movie contract. "I wouldn't sign a seven-year contract with God," she exclaimed in her famed rich Barrytone. "No-you'd better make that 'only with God.' ... At my age it would be ridiculous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Regards to Broadway | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

...Items: a baby blue fur coat, a $50 hand-painted bathing suit, a girdle decorated with cherubs lolling on clouds.) Cole of California readied an aquacade, Catalina Mills had a Catalina Island beach show, Tabak of California was going to parade his models on the rim of the Grand Canyon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Made in California | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

Last week, California's stylists got some publicity they had not counted on. As Hollywood's pretty designer Dede Johnson paraded her new styles on the rim of the Canyon, she fell over the edge, landed on a ledge 50 feet down. Luckily, she was unhurt, except for bruises and shock; luckily there were news stories. (Eastern stylists cattishly murmured that this was going too far, even for California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Made in California | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

...hundred men, women & children sweated away last week to convert an isolated Colorado canyon into an atomic foxhole. They hurried to finish roads, houses, power plant, workshop and administration building before atom bombs rained down to wipe out civilization. Dr. Doreal had said it would be "soon, probably sooner." When the radioactive dust had settled at last, they-the Brotherhood of the White Temple-would emerge from their hideout, help set civilization going again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Shangri-la, Colo. | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

...Canyon Passage. Ripsnorting Technicolor escape into the Old West (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Sep. 16, 1946 | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

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