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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...testimony of a chunky, grey-haired Milwaukee manufacturer named Albert Joseph Gross. The witness was a disgruntled former client of Five-Percenter James V. Hunt, who had boasted of his friendship with Vaughan. Back in 1945, Witness Gross was making deep freezers. He was asked if he had ever shipped any to Washington. He had. Wisconsin's G.O.P. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy asked him who had gotten them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Deep Freeze Set | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

Except for Fanny Brice, as Baby Snooks, no woman comic has ever seriously challenged radio's top funnymen. Most radio comediennes (Mary Livingstone, Portland Hoffa, Jane Ace, Gracie Allen) stick to mixed-doubles family comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Female of the Species | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...International Register Co. sells the hungry little gadget to retailers for $6.95. By last week, only a month after going on the market, the Meter-Matic was on some 5,000 refrigerators. In one of its zones, Nash-Kelvinator began July with the largest inventory it had ever carried. Meter-propelled sales soon cleaned out the stock. The General Furniture Co., in Chicago's slummy South Side, sold more than 2,000 refrigerators and other appliances in two weeks, almost all on the meter plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SELLING: A Quarter a Day | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

Italian friends said that he was more skittish than ever about marriage. The town gawked at the idea that she was chucking the movies, then brushed it skeptically aside. Next day, in an interview in Rome with the New York Post Home News's Earl Wilson, Actress Bergman backtracked a little, but left it plain that she was fed up with the life of a movie star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Off the Pedestal | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

Backing the handsome production values are several fine performances-notably those by Jennifer Jones, Heflin and Jourdan. Miss Jones, in her best picture to date, manipulates Emma's moods and caprices with sensitive dexterity. Hardly ever out of sight of the camera, she gives a performance that is hardly ever out of focus, a feat that even the finicky Flaubert could admire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 15, 1949 | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

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