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...Carmen out of its hair. Already on the Carmen bandwagon as it begins to roll through retailers' showcases and advertising columns from coast to coast: shoes, handbags, cigarettes, hosiery, soap, cosmetics, hats, scarves, hair ornaments, castanets, costume jewelry. An impressive seller in its own right is the "Carmen doll" ($6.98); through 30,000 retailers, it piled up $1,000,000 in orders within its first 20 days on the market. "Carmen castanets" to be used as a "wolf-call" will be pushed as a national fad among teenagers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 6, 1948 | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...Morini by now is used to the pigeonhole, but not resigned to it. One of the first times she played in public, for Austria's Emperor Karl, the Emperor was agreeably surprised-not because she was a girl, but because she was only eight. He gave her a doll. The first time she was tagged as a "woman violinist," she says, was in the U.S. Now, at 40, Erica says, "I hate that label. It's obvious I'm a woman, but what does that have to do with it?" She is well aware that few women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sex Shouldn't Matter | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

...York toy manufacturer offered a doll which, when patted, burped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Mar. 22, 1948 | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

Hendrik Ibsen's "A Doll House" will be staged in Radcliffe's Agassiz theater tonight at 8:15 o'clock by the Tributary Players of Boston under the sponsorship of the Graduate Chapter of the Radcliffe Alumnae Association...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ibsen at 'Cliffe Tonight | 2/17/1948 | See Source »

...mouth, is certainly pretty enough. Her light brown hair (golden now that she bleaches it) falls pageboy style on her shoulders. She weighs a trim, girlish 107 Ibs. neither as full-bosomed as a Hollywood starlet nor as wide-hipped as most skaters. She looks, in fact, like a doll which is to be looked at but not touched. But Barbara Ann Scott is no fragile mammet. She is the women's figure-skating champion of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ice Queen | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

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