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...Curvilinear Cinemactress Joan Blondell got herself a fresh hairdo, a new fur coat, headed for Greenland and Iceland to entertain the armed forces. Manhattan socialite Edith Kingdon Gould, linguist (5), ex-child-poetess, 22-year-old great-granddaughter of the late, great Robber Baron Jay Gould, joined the WAVES, went off to train at Madison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Day of Days | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

...Baker called his show a sexhibition, invited visitors to cast their ballots for winners in the following categories: 1) Best company on a desert island, 2) Best company on a desert, 3) Best company, 4) Best, 5) Whew!!! By the time the show closed the visitors had voted a curvilinear nude by free-lance advertising Artist Harvey T. Dunn winner in all five categories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The People's Choice | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

This takes some time and Helen Vinson, whose oomph is less curvilinear and more serpentine than Ann Sheridan's, nearly spoils the happy synthesis. She also is so irresistibly attracted to Cinemactor Cagney that when her overseer husband (Jerome Cowan) remarks that Cagney looks half dead after being shot up in the jungle, Miss Vinson snaps unkindly: "That still leaves him 50% up on you." But Miss Vinson is too much the intellectual type. Ann Sheridan soon demonstrates that the way to Mr. Cagney's heart is to heave a plate of sandwiches at him so that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 27, 1940 | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

Maisie is, unexpectedly, Cinemactress Ann Sothern, who, at 30, after five years in cinema, finds herself a find. Cinemaddicts know curvilinear Ann Sothern as a glamor girl, and as a glamor girl she has endured all the familiar permutations. When she was born in North Dakota, her name was Harriette Lake (of the submarine Lakes). When Columbia Pictures signed her, Harriette changed her name to Ann Sothern, dyed her brown hair to varying blonde shades, got nowhere in particular. RKO took her over, let her hair drift back to its natural shade, called her a "brownette," let her endorse Luckies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 3, 1939 | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...thing, rising in sheer exultation . . . from bottom to top ... a unit without a single dissenting line." Many a disciple of the "International Style" prefers to think of Louis Sullivan as the designer of the Carson Pirie Scott store in the heart of Chicago's Loop. It has a curvilinear corner entrance, great windows and very little on its upper façade except for the terra cotta bands following the bare outlines of the building's steel skeleton. It was begun in 1899. It might have been run up last year. Louis Sullivan had no truck with arid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Master's Master | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

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