Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Esquire magazine hasn't had a girl it could call its own since a judge gave the Varga girl back to aggrieved Artist Alberto Vargas (TIME, May 13). Vargas said he had been outsmarted in the fine print of his contract with Esquire's Publisher David Smart. Last week at a Hollywood cocktail party, Publisher Smart unveiled the Varga Girl's successor. The new deal was not one girl but a gallery full, drawn not by one artist but by 17 of them...
Mickey went over the hill and abandoned his fine contract with Mexico's Pasquel brothers. The Pasquels promptly hollered that he owed them $26,000. Said Mickey: "I don't owe them nothing." Presumably, under Baseball Commissioner Happy Chandler's rules, Mickey Owen was banned from U.S. organized ball for five years. But Brooklyn Dodger President Branch Rickey, badly in need of a catcher for his team's stretch drive, was ready to forgive & forget. He argued that Mickey's case was different, since he went straight from the Navy to Mexico, without signing...
...Hollywood: "I don't want to go to them, but if they come knocking, I'll open the door." Before week's end a representative of an independent Hollywood producer came knocking. Mother opened the door. When the representative left, Harve had a movie contract...
...oxygen) were already formidable weapons, and their limit of range and accuracy had not been approached by their German masters. But the age of rockets would not really dawn until atomic energy had been harnessed to propel them. With this in mind, the Army Air Forces recently signed a contract with the Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corp. to develop atomic aircraft motors...
...prices went up a little bit here, a little more there. On a few typical days last week OPA hiked ceilings on autos (7%), cotton textiles (7%), kid leather (30%), sofas (6%), hot-water bottles (10%), oilcloth (13½%), enamel kitchen utensils (5%). Off went ceilings on window washing, contract janitorial service, sour cherries and imported food specialties...