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...Charmer's Charm. The Sheraton Corp. of America hotel chain's cocktail lounge "Service with Charm" (principal item: nylon-gowned waitresses picked for looks, height [5'6"] and underpinning) had worked like a charm, said New York General Manager Gilbert Johnson. It had more than doubled liquor sales in eleven hotels and will be extended to all the rest with lounges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, Mar. 29, 1948 | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

Born. To Moss Hart, 43, hit playwright (Lady in the Dark, Christopher Blake), and Kitty Carlisle, 35, popular musicomedy and cinema charmer of the '30s: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Christopher. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 26, 1948 | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...snake charmer, the drum beater, and the man who operated a crude wooden Ferris wheel were there in full force, as they and their ancestors had been for more than a century. The entrance to the sylvan temple of Sipi was decorated with paper flowers, as it always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mood under a Pine Tree | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

...courtroom, the case of the fatal charmer Neville George Clevely Heath was handled with typical British dispatch. He was tried, convicted and sentenced to hang, all within three days. Now the British press could set up a-long-suppressed howl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Forbidden Picture | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

This barroom-ballad of a tale concerns Delia Green (Ruby Hill), a loose and lovely charmer who chucks a saloonkeeper for a whirlwind jockey called Little Augie (Harold Nicholas). The saloonkeeper gets plugged by a discarded flame, but thinking that Augie fired the shot, puts a dying-breath curse on him. Augie's luck changes and, hoping to lift the jinx, Delia leaves him. But his luck soon returns, and so does the lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical Play in Manhattan, Apr. 8, 1946 | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

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