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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blonde, blue-eyed Mary Lee Abbott, 19, 5 ft. 2, won the award of a five-man jury (including James Montgomery Flagg) as the most glamorous debutante of Manhattan's 1940-41 season, thus taking a long lead over all contenders for the title left vacant when Socialite Josephine Johnson got engaged last summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 25, 1940 | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...Alden C. Flagg Sr. of Boston held the first number (258) drawn in 1917. His 27-year-old son held 158 last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DRAFT: Only the Strong | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

...Under pressure of the emergency, the Army's authorized strength is being upped to 400,000. Resurrected was a dramatic World War I poster by James Montgomery Flagg. Twenty-three years later. Uncle Sam once more looked hard at the young men of his country, pointed a sharp, arresting finger, said "I Want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Training | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

...E.S.T.) as a possible summer substitute for one of the big shows. To prove his point that there is a bit of minstrelsy in every man, Producer Mort Lewis (If I Had The Chance) got Cartoonist Ham Fisher (Joe Palooka} and Illustrator James Montgomery Flagg as regular endmen, Actor Ezra Stone and Announcer Harry von Zell as extras, Jay C. Flippen as interlocutor. Celebrity Minstrels opened with Oh, Dem Golden Slippers, got in tune with There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, closed with Waiting for the Robert E. Lee. Sample chestnut: "Great Scott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Spring Shows | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

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