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...Snatch. As an A.P. staffer for 14 years, Oatis had earned the good reputation the prosecutor damned him for. A stickler for accuracy and a digger for details, cautious, quiet Reporter Oatis had seemed just the man to put in charge of the bureau in Prague a year ago, after two chiefs had been booted out by the Czech government on trumped-up charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Kangaroo Court | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

There was certainly a lot of 1929's heady, champagne flavor about the U.S. in 1950, right down to the biggest bull market in 20 years. Gold-Digger Lorelei Lee was a reigning musical-comedy queen; F. Scott Fitzgerald had not only been enthusiastically revived, but was the hero of a novel that led the bestseller lists. Nightclubs were jammed, theater tickets occasionally went for $50 apiece, and useless luxuries-men's garters trimmed in 14-carat gold, mink scarves for three-year-olds, diamond-studded car keys-were salable items again. In an offhand manner, a Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Giant into Armor | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

...poster shows two giant young ladies, nude save for a white strip marked "censored," blaring out meaninglessly "Follies Bergere." Also a sheet painted with a new-type Shmoo, the "digger," hangs from the ceiling; and on one wall, dozens of babies pronounce the virtues of their candidate-choice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 15 Bid for '54 Smoker Election; Huge Posters Highlight Campaign | 12/14/1950 | See Source »

Charbonneaux and Lehmann paid a bonus of 5,000 Greek drachmas (33?) to the lucky Greek digger who had made the find. Later, they compared the hand with those of a number of American girl students who were taking part in the digging. "It was an exquisite piece of sculpture," Charbonneaux recalled. "But much more plump than their nervous modern hands. It looked more like that of our fat female Greek cook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fat Hand | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

Combat & Clothes. In another classification of frigid women the doctors lump the 'gold-digger,' who is financially exploiting many sexual partners and husbands ... the prostitute ... and the nymphomaniac, the latter in search for satisfaction which is never achieved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Cold Women | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

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