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...gadget-gift field is by far the biggest--and easiest to shop. Any store contains enough perfume, of various and assorted smells, to drown in, and the salesgirls will be happy to spray you with drams of it. But unless you know your girls taste in scents, stay away from heavy, dramatic perfumes and pick light brands--or she may trade it to her roommate for a chocolate bar without nuts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Offers Tips to Shoppers Puzzled What To Give (Him, Her) | 12/14/1948 | See Source »

...Manhattan, M-G-M likes to avoid projection-room screenings and show its films to reviewers at "sneak previews" in regular theaters. The tactic seems designed to drown out critical judgments with loud sounds of audience approval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Criticism Hurts | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...Duplessis bandwagon, just in time. He kissed and made up with his archenemy, then set out to top Duplessis in headline catching. Houde howled that the inclusion of. Newfoundland as the Dominion's tenth province was a foul plot to bring in 350,000 British votes to drown out French Canada, that Prime Minister King started World War II by "provoking Hitler," that Louis St. Laurent was a discredited leader of the French Canadians and should resign. When it was all over, jubilant Union Nationale supporters paraded Godbout in effigy through Quebec City streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: Gosh, That Maurice! | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

...oven . . . stab her, cut her throat or bash her brains out. If you can arrange a procedure, you can set her on fire, push her off a station platform in front of an oncoming train, push her through the porthole of a ship, or, more easily, you can drown her in the bathtub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Noose Wins | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

...Necktie, a Notebook. Unconscious but still alive, Polk was thrown overboard to drown-in stagnant water only 150 yards off shore. His money and most of his papers were left on the body, as evidence that not robbery but "deliberate execution" was the motive. Then his identity card was mailed to the police. Still missing: Polk's notebook, his scarf, his favorite necktie (bright red and blue)-and the flower vendor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Death & the Flower Vendor | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

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